[whatwg] The new content model for <details> breaks rendering in MSIE5-7

[Remco]

On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 05:41, Ian Hickson <ian at hixie.ch> wrote:
> As far as I can see the options are as follows:
>
>  1. Drop support for <details> and <figure> for now, revisit it later.
>
>  2. Use <legend>, and don't expect to be able to use it in any browsers
>    sanely for a few years.
>
>  3. Use <dt>/<dd>, and don't expect to be able to use it in old versions
>    of IE without rather complicated and elaborate hacks for a few years.
>
>  4. Invent a new element with a weird name (since all the good names are
>    taken already), and don't expect to be able to use it in IE without
>    hacks for a few years.
>
> I am not convinced of the wisdom of #4. I prefer #2 long term, but I see
> the argument for #3.

So what you'd expect is that #3 would take about 4 years to completely
fix itself, and #2 would take about 5 years. With such a small
difference, I'd just choose the best option in the long term.

-- 
Remco