[whatwg] hasFeature() When Only 1 Syntax is Supported
Ian Hickson
ian at hixie.ch
Tue Jul 28 17:31:38 PDT 2009
On Tue, 14 Jul 2009, Simon Pieters wrote:
> On Tue, 14 Jul 2009 07:44:25 +0200, Ian Hickson <ian at hixie.ch> wrote:
> > On Wed, 24 Jun 2009, Simon Pieters wrote:
> > >
> > > The spec is now gaining all the remaining stuff from DOM2 HTML, so
> > > this note is incorrect:
> > >
> > > "Note: The interfaces defined in this specification are not always
> > > supersets of the interfaces defined in DOM2 HTML; some features that
> > > were formerly deprecated, poorly supported, rarely used or
> > > considered unnecessary have been removed. Therefore it is not
> > > guaranteed that an implementation that supports "HTML" "5.0" also
> > > supports "HTML" "2.0"."
> > >
> > > I'm thinking that the spec should maybe just use "2.0" instead of
> > > "5.0", since it's what browsers do and there might be pages that
> > > check for this.
> > >
> > > Meanwhile it seems useful to return false as appropriate if the UA
> > > only allows one of the syntaxes, as Smylers points out.
> >
> > I've removed everything but HTML/2.0.
>
> I'm pretty sure Web compat requires HTML/1.0 to return true, too.
Good point, added that one too.
> Gecko, WebKit and Opera return true for XHTML/2.0. WebKit and Opera also
> return true for XHTML/1.0. I don't know what the Web compat situation is
> with the XHTML values.
I've added these, but would be very willing to drop any that end up only
supported in at most one browser.
--
Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL
http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,.
Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
More information about the whatwg
mailing list