[webkit-dev] Adding <main> element to WebCore

James Craig jcraig at apple.com
Thu Jan 17 17:20:40 PST 2013


IMO, the following represents enough evidence to land the patch as soon as the last layout test failure is resolved.
https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=103172

1. Sam Ruby, as Chair declared this passing the HTML WG vote, "With no objections and ample support, this resolution passes."
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2012Nov/0232.html

2. Representatives from another rendering engine vendor (Mozilla) have expressed support for this feature and a willingness to implement it.

	2a. David Bolter, said, "…this [main] is a good thing!"
	http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2012Dec/0073.html

	2b. Henri Sivonen: "I think we should implement it because…" (Gecko patch pending)
	https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=820508

3. And finally, <main> already landed in the HTML 5.1 spec about a week ago.
http://www.w3.org/html/wg/drafts/html/master/grouping-content.html#the-main-element




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