Transition from Legacy to Native rendering - (was Re: [whatwg] repetition model)

[Ian Hickson]

On Mon, 14 Jun 2004, Hallvord Reiar Michaelsen Steen wrote:
>
> I imagine the script libraries should be written with this in mind and
> themselves check whether the UAs support WebForms 2 natively.
> Something like..
>
> if(! (document.implementation && document.implementation.hasFeature
> && document.implementation.hasFeature('WebForms', '2.0') ) ){
>     // create SCRIPT element or write SCRIPT tag linking in the WF2
>     // JavaScript libraries here
> }
>
> If it gets implemented first in Opera and Mozilla and they do not add
> support for CSS behaviours it is of course tempting to just use a CSS
> behaviour property for IE. Even so the script library itself should
> probably use hasFeature to avoid crashing with a native
> implementation.
>
> Ian, perhaps one ought to mention this somewhere if you write
> something about requirements for legacy UA-libraries?

Yes.

I don't really know what a good solution is. hasFeature() doesn't really
work; since it is highly likely that WF2 will be implemented piecemeal,
like all other specs. (I have put a hasFeature string into the spec, but I
don't think it is enough.)

I'm open to suggestions.

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