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

Bruce Lawson brucel at opera.com
Fri Oct 2 17:25:06 PDT 2009


On Fri, 02 Oct 2009 23:51:55 +0100, Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage at gmail.com>  
wrote:

> the use-case for <figure> and <details> are
> sorta minimal anyway - it's enough that they can justify themselves,
> but just barely.

Use case for figure is perhaps minimal. But details is hugely useful. It's  
an incredibly common thing to want to collapse and hide a section of  
explanatory text.


-- 
Hang loose and stay groovy,

Bruce Lawson
Web Evangelist
www.opera.com (work)
www.brucelawson.co.uk (personal)
www.twitter.com/brucel



More information about the whatwg mailing list