[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 103172] implement the HTML <main> element

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https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=103172





--- Comment #15 from Steve Faulkner <faulkner.steve at gmail.com>  2012-11-25 12:48:26 PST ---
(In reply to comment #14)
> Nobody said your data and so forth didn't have merit, just that on the balance you reached the wrong conclusion.
> 
> (Incidentally, since people on the WHATWG list are encouraged to not post comments along the line of "+1" and since people have seen that I take a relatively reasonable view, people will often just assume that I'm going to reject bad suggestions and not comment. So saying that I'm the only one who has said anything negative on the thread isn't evidence that I'm the only person who reached that conclusion — it's my job to be the one who's negative. You can draw more conclusions from the fact that nobody else is implementing this feature, IMHO. It's not like people don't implement stuff I don't spec — it happens all the time, even without a spec at all. This feature has a spec, even, and still doesn't have implementors. It's not generally a sign of support that the same person who's writing the spec also has to write the code to put it in browsers. Don't confuse indifference for support. But none of this is relevant — what matters isn't how much support something has, it's how much justification it has.)


The spec has been around a short time, a few months at most, so now you have moved from being in disagreement to being disingenuous , which is unfortunate.

The thread started by Simon Pieters on whatwg [1] 

started with an observation:

"My impression from TPAC is that implementors are on board with the idea of  
adding <main> to HTML, and we're left with Hixie objecting to it."

and ended with a specific questions:

"If there is anyone besides from Hixie who objects to adding <main>, it  
would be useful to hear it."

While there were many responses there were no other objections.


When I tweeted today that I had submitted a patch, the response from Marco Zehe one of the mozilla accessibility engineers: 


"Want to create a Firefox patch, too?" [2]


[1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-whatwg-archive/2012Nov/0055.html
[2] https://twitter.com/MarcoInEnglish/status/272648449483218944

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