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

[Dean Edwards]

On 02/10/2009 23:51, Tab Atkins Jr. wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 5:35 PM, Dean Edwards<dean.edwards at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> On 29/09/2009 21:55, Keryx Web wrote:
>>> 2009-09-29 21:53, Dean Edwards wrote:
>>>> Can't we just invent some new elements? We've already created 20
>>>> new ones. Two more won't hurt. :)
>>>
>>> This has been discussed on the HTML5 WG list to death.
>>
>> Can we revisit this? It seems to important to sweep under the carpet.
>
> The basic issue is that the use-case for<figure>  and<details>  are
> sorta minimal anyway - it's enough that they can justify themselves,
> but just barely.  If we have to mint *more* new elements just to get
> them to work, that moves them from "barely worth the effort" to "meh,
> just drop it".

If that's the way people feel then it is better to drop these elements 
rather than introduce potentially dangerous behaviours when using them.

You say that the use cases are marginal but just as I started getting 
used to them I found an awesome way to use them. Now that I can't use 
them I feel less awesome.

> <dt>/<dd>  only have parsing problems in IE6 and IE7.

Only 30% of browsers you say?

> In the meantime, we can just keep using<div>s to handle both of these
> cases, like we do right now.
>

So we drop two new elements for the sake of adding two more?

-dean