On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 4:17 PM, Boris Zbarsky <bzbar...@mit.edu> wrote:
> Yes, but at the cost of performance and memory usage that just doesn't > seem worthwhile here. > Is there really a nontrivial cost to a one-time warning, the first time a window attribute is resolved this way? (Warning once per ID would be nice, but warning once per page load serves the purpose.) It sounds like a single branch at most. And web developers get annoyed when UAs warn about various spec-compliant > stuff they're doing, in my experience. > I'm a web developer, and I get annoyed at not being told when I'm doing something obviously bad, so you'll have to pick which group to annoy: people who want to write reliable webpages, or those who don't. -- Glenn Maynard