Hi Chris,

On Wed, 12 Mar 2008 22:44:04 +0100, Chris Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Actually, Anne's post was not very clear about the ARIA point as well as others.

In IE8 you can do

  element.ariaDisabled = true

This is not possible in any other browser. In other browsers you are required to do

  element.setAttribute("aria-disabled", "true")

So if people use the former it will only work in IE8. Also, the idea was that ARIA scripts would work for older browsers as well as AT could simply read the DOM. If you introduce DOM attributes (such as ariaDisabled) this whould no longer be true.


Yeah, I see that, and I've been thinking about that very issue. Not clear to me if Opera is happy if we simply make it so a standards-mode DOCTYPE is necessary, as some of the invective is still demanding removal of IE7 compatibility altogether.

We're not happy with documentMode, but making X-UA-Compatible work just for standards mode would be an improvement. Just like doing IE8 mode by default is an improvement.

Hope that helps.

Kind regards,


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Anne van Kesteren
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