On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 10:14 PM, Robert O'Callahan <rob...@ocallahan.org> wrote: > On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 12:17 PM, Adam Barth <w...@adambarth.com> wrote: >> That's difficult to say given that it's supported in most browsers. >> We'd need to look for folks complaining to Mozilla. There's a tree of >> duplicate bug reports that lead to >> <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=264412>, but none since >> 2006. In 2006, you said you'd probably add it to HTML5: >> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=343357#c2. :) >> >> I doubt that IE or WebKit will remove support at this point, which >> leaves this as an inviting interoperability trap for developers who >> don't test in every browser. > > If it's not needed for compatibility, why wouldn't Webkit consider removing > it?
Oh, you're certainly welcome to send in a patch and see what the project thinks, but my guess is the risk of removing the feature would outweigh the cost of keeping it (which is essentially zero). Adam