Remove the item* microdata attributes (not supported by browsers) #21978
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The API reflecting these attributes was removed already: mdn#16226 The attributes have never had any effect beyond the API for accessing them, so it's fair to say these attributes are not supported. A search for "itemscope" in the source of Chromium, Gecko and WebKit finds only old tests and similar, no code handling the attribute.
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Should we remove these completely then? Seems like they meet the criteria: https://github.com/mdn/browser-compat-data/blob/main/docs/data-guidelines/index.md#removal-of-irrelevant-features
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@Elchi3 they are documented on MDN and I think that makes sense since they're used by https://schema.org/docs/gs.html and probably other things. Should content be updated to just not have a BCD key then? |
hm, I guess I would remove the compat tables on MDN and leave a note there saying that browsers do not necessarily need to support this. I mean so that absent a compat table readers are not wondering about the compat story. |
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I mean an all-false table also leaves the wrong impression that this is unusable, right? |
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Just removing the compat tables sounds good to me. Do you want me to do that before we move forward with this PR then? |
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That would be great, yes! Thank you! |
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I've sent mdn/content#32926 to drop the compat tables. Should I just remove these entries from BCD then? |
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Yes, please remove them in this PR. And as Will says in mdn/content#32926 (review) use mdn/content's front-matter yaml to provide the spec url for these features in content directly then. |
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* Remove browser compat tables for microdata Goes with mdn/browser-compat-data#21978. * Add spec-urls
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mdn/content#32926 is merged now, so this should be good to go too. |
The API reflecting these attributes was removed already:
#16226
The attributes have never had any effect beyond the API for accessing
them, so it's fair to say these attributes are not supported.
A search for "itemscope" in the source of Chromium, Gecko and WebKit
finds only old tests and similar, no code handling the attribute.
MDN content update: mdn/content#32926