[whatwg] Introducing new elements is expensive

Anne van Kesteren fora at annevankesteren.nl
Sat Mar 12 00:40:28 PST 2005


Dean Edwards wrote:
>> You completely missed the point. The idea is that the inline 
>> content in a legacy UA would be *intentionally* different from the
>> |value| attribute as a way of providing separate content for WF2
>> UAs and legacy UAs:
> 
> From my reading of the spec, the relationship between inline content
>  and "value" for an <output> element is exactly the same as for
> <textarea>.

That was what I understand as well, however, I believe he means the
following:

   <output value="bar">foo</output>

Legacy UAs show "foo" where WF2 UAs show "bar".


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  Anne van Kesteren
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