Comments on: HTML5 details / summary http://devblog.xing.com/frontend/html5-details-summary/ Programming tidbits and other insights from the developers at XING.com Wed, 16 May 2012 13:16:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Ian Devlin http://devblog.xing.com/frontend/html5-details-summary/comment-page-1/#comment-1468 Ian Devlin Thu, 15 Dec 2011 16:53:45 +0000 http://devblog.xing.com/?p=1362#comment-1468 Good stuff, I wrote a bit about this too (http://www.iandevlin.com/blog/2011/12/html5/html5-the-details-and-summary-elements) which includes a cross-browser version (works on IE too - as it uses jQuery). One thing that I would like to point out is that your test for details support is quite basic, and not bullet-proof. Mathias Bynens has posted a more robust solution, although it requires jQuery: http://mathiasbynens.be/notes/html5-details-jquery. Good stuff, I wrote a bit about this too (http://www.iandevlin.com/blog/2011/12/html5/html5-the-details-and-summary-elements) which includes a cross-browser version (works on IE too – as it uses jQuery).

One thing that I would like to point out is that your test for details support is quite basic, and not bullet-proof. Mathias Bynens has posted a more robust solution, although it requires jQuery: http://mathiasbynens.be/notes/html5-details-jquery.

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