[webkit-dev] Implementing HTML5 menu element

[Jarred Nicholls]

Consider that menu and dir were both deprecated in HTML4 in 1999[1], and are
obsolete with HTML5.  HTML4 Transitional/loose DTD still recognizes them.

Jarred

[1]: http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/struct/lists.html#h-10.4

On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 5:40 AM, Antaryami Pandia <xqb748 at motorola.com>wrote:

> Hi,
> We are intending to implement the HTML5 <menu> tag.
>
> The related specs can be found at:-
>        -
> http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#the-menu-element
>        -
> http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/interactive-elements.html#the-menu-element .
>
> A bug for the purpose is already logged at webkit bugzilla (
> https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=58454).
>
> Currently webkit does have a support for menu tag (not html5) with below
> interface:-
>
>     interface HTMLMenuElement : HTMLElement {
>         attribute [Reflect] boolean compact;
>     };
>
> Where as the proposed new implementation will have the interface as:-
>
>     interface HTMLMenuElement : HTMLElement {
>            attribute DOMString type;
>            attribute DOMString label;
>    };
>
> So my question is should we also support the earlier menu tag
> implementation?
>
> Regards,
> -Antaryami
>
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