Re: Require quotes around attributes for more characters

On Fri, 27 Feb 2009, Simon Pieters wrote:
>
> See
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> http://code.google.com/p/html5lib/issues/detail?id=92
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> and
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> http://code.google.com/p/html5lib/issues/detail?id=93
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> Maybe the spec should require quotes when an attribute value contains `, <, or
> one of
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> U+0009, U+000A, U+000B, U+000C, U+000D, U+0020, U+002F, U+00A0, U+1680,
> U+180E, U+180F, U+2000, U+2001, U+2002, U+2003, U+2004, U+2005, U+2006,
> U+2007, U+2008, U+2009, U+200A, U+2028, U+2029, U+202F, U+205F and U+3000
> 
> for better compat with legacy browsers, and to avoid security issues.

I haven't added this requirement to the spec, because the problems are not 
intrinsic problems with the language but transitory problems that will go 
away in due course.

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