[whatwg] register*Handler and Web Intents

Fri Aug 3 02:00:33 PDT 2012

On 08/02/2012 06:57 PM, Ian Hickson wrote:

> But now consider the short-term cost of adding an element to the head. All
> it does is make a few elements in the <head> leak to the <body>. The page
> still works fine in legacy UAs (none of the elements only work in the
> <head>).

But it will break any scripts or selectors that depend on position in 
the DOM. For that reason I expect many pages that include intents won't 
"work fine" in UAs that don't have parser support. I agree with Henri 
that it is extremely worrying to allow aesthetic concerns to trump 
backward compatibility here.

I would also advise strongly against using position in DOM to detect 
intents support; if you insist on adding a new void element I will 
strongly recommend that we add it to the parser asap to try and mitigate 
the above breakage, irrespective of whether our plans for the rest of 
the intent mechanism.