I’m a major admirer of
Safari and of its primary author
Dave Hyatt. But a couple
of Dave’s recent notes have caused me serious discomfort.
Here
he notes that Safari will support a new "search" value for the
type= attribute on the
input element, and
here
he discusses a new canvas element.
Even more troubling is the opening phrase: Another extension we made to
HTML is...
I’d be really happy if someone explained to me how this is different from
what Netscape and Microsoft did to each other so irritatingly back in 1996
(<MARQUEE> anyone?).
What the
W3C and
Web Standards Project were created
to stop?
[By the way, there are namespaces, there are class= attributes,
there are legitimate ways to extend HTML.]
Someone please explain to me why I’m wrong, because I really hope this isn’t
what it looks like.
