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

[Tab Atkins Jr.]

On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 7:25 PM, Bruce Lawson <brucel at opera.com> wrote:
> 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.

Agreed, but <details> won't be usable at all in modern browsers
(without hacking support in via js) until everyone updates.  By the
time <details> has native functionality it'll be safe to use <dt>/<dd>
in it.  For now we can just keep doing what we're already doing with
javascript and do this with <div>s (or, as I often use, <dl>s).

<figure> is actually worse off here, since it 'works' in modern
browsers already (since it's nothing but a <div> with extra
semantics).  But, as you say, it's also much less useful in general
terms than <details> will be.  Staying with <div> for now won't be a
big deal.

~TJ