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

[Ryosuke Niwa]

Thanks for the follow up. Mozilla's commitment makes a strong case for
supporting it in WebKit as well.

- R. Niwa

On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 5:20 PM, James Craig <jcraig at apple.com> wrote:

> 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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