- From: Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc>
- Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2010 03:37:50 -0700
- To: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
- Cc: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>, "public-html@w3.org WG" <public-html@w3.org>
On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 9:38 AM, Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com> wrote: > On Wed, 07 Apr 2010 18:30:58 +0200, Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc> wrote: >> >> IMHO we can remove this part too. If really needed it can live in the >> separate @profile spec, but it seems to me that that spec should >> either define the property on all HTMLElements, or on none of them. If >> the latter browsers should remove the implementation of the IDL >> attribute. (This is something I'd be ok with doing in firefox >> experimentally to see if it would break any websites). > > Would make sense to test that first before actually removing that part of > the specification. That's how we usually go about removing features. If > you're serious about testing usage of that it might be an idea to remove > some of the legacy cruft too. I filed a bug on several browsers a while ago > in an attempt to completely nuke <basefont>, e.g. > > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=518110 > > Didn't go anywhere so far though. Ask and you shall receive: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=518110#c2 Not that I really think that profile is related to that bug, but since you complained and I always love removing useless code, it is now done. If you know of more stuff that can be removed, don't hesitate to file more bugs. / Jonas
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