[whatwg] <details> members

Ian Hickson ian at hixie.ch
Tue Feb 20 12:01:14 PST 2007


On Mon, 19 Feb 2007, Anne van Kesteren wrote:
>
> I think it would be more consistent to have .defaultOpen besides .open 
> to reflect the content attribute. .open would then reflect the current 
> state. Consistent with form controls, that is.

I intentionally broke consistency here to avoid the mess that the 
.defaultFoo stuff has caused over the years. Do you disagree with this 
decision?

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