[whatwg] [html5] r3306 - [] (0) Define interaction with CSS case-sensitivity rules.
Ian Hickson
ian at hixie.ch
Tue Jul 28 17:28:04 PDT 2009
On Tue, 14 Jul 2009, Simon Pieters wrote:
> On Tue, 14 Jul 2009 08:26:37 +0200, Ian Hickson <ian at hixie.ch> wrote:
> > > and presumably the new attributes in HTML5: [...]
> >
> > Why would we want to add anything to this list?
> >
> > I'd rather keep this list as small as possible.
>
> Hmm. In that case maybe we can remove it altogether? I think it was only
> implemented for compliance with CSS2 and HTML4 when Niels Leenheer wrote
> a Selectors test suite back in 2006.
On Wed, 22 Jul 2009, Anne van Kesteren wrote:
>
> Yeah, and IE7 did not support this. Killing this useless list seems like
> the best way forward. As far as I know there is no compatibility reason
> for having it other than that test suite and having it be an arbitrary
> number of attributes is just confusing and slightly increases code
> complexity and testing.
I'm willing to remove it if the browsers drop support for it.
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