On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 10:08 AM, Darin Adler <da...@apple.com> wrote:
> On Apr 8, 2011, at 2:09 AM, Ryosuke Niwa wrote:
>
>> We have been discussing the possibility of dropping WML support in WebKit on 
>> IRC for a while now because
>>       • None of core ports (Mac, Windows, GTK, Qt, & Chromium) use it by 
>> default
>>       • Maintenance cost is high
>
> I’ll just add one other thing: HTML form element implementations have 
> factoring that are twisted and complicated because of WML in a way that makes 
> working on those classes unpleasant for me. It would make form work 
> considerably easier if we drop WML support.

This is possibly the main practical argument for dropping it. I totally agree.

>
>    -- Darin
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