- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2010 17:18:44 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc>
- cc: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>, HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>
On Wed, 10 Nov 2010, Jonas Sicking wrote: > > > > http://dev.w3.org/html5/status/issue-status.html#ISSUE-137 > > The editor was never given a chance to respond to the new information > that was made available in the bug before this was turned into an issue. > > So given the fact that it's unlikely that the regexp won't be extended > to deal with the use case, Ian, are you still opposed adding some > attribute to allow case insensitive matching? >From a holistic point of view, I think the platform would be best served by improving regular expression syntax throughout the platform rather than having to update each place that uses regular expressions each time a new feature is added. I also think it is too early to know how we should improve pattern="" at this point, since it is not widely used. So on balance I do not think it is a good idea for us to make the proposed change at this point. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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