On 29/09/2009 20:41, Tab Atkins Jr. wrote:
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 2:08 PM, Dean Edwards<dean.edwa...@gmail.com> wrote:
You have two choices to get around the<dd> rendering bug:
1. The potentially dangerous document.write()
2. Inserting weird conditional comments into your code:
</head>
<!--[if lt IE 8]><object><!<![endif]-->
<body>
I don't like either solution.
The third solution, of course, is just to avoid<details> until IE7
shrinks sufficiently to be ignored. That won't take too much longer,
and then you can start using it with impunity (aided by a js shim to
give it functionality in the browsers that accept it but don't
implement it yet).
It's going to take a while for IE7 to go away. In the meantime it
becomes an education issue -- "You can start using HTML5 except
<details> which will look OK in some browsers but completely break others."
This whole thing is really much less of an issue than the<legend>
problems were, where you'd have to wait for *every* current browser to
phase out, as opposed to just two that are already declining nicely.
The <legend> issue was much easier to fix with JavaScript. But that was
a horrible solution as well.
Can't we just invent some new elements? We've already created 20 new
ones. Two more won't hurt. :)
-dean
