- From: Masataka Yakura <myakura.web@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2009 11:55:02 +0900
- To: Dominique Hazael-Massieux <dom@w3.org>
- Cc: Steven Pemberton <steven@w3.org>, public-xhtml2 <public-xhtml2@w3.org>
Hello. On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 10:12 PM, Dominique Hazael-Massieux<dom@w3.org> wrote: > http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/2004/xhtml-faq#target explains why the target > attribute was removed from XHTML 1.1. > > But the latest draft of XHTML 1.1 adds the target attribute back: > http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-xhtml11-20070216/xhtml11_dtd.html#a_xhtml11_driver The editor said dropping the attribute was an oversight [1] at the time of WD publication. That's why it was back. However, later it was removed again since there were some objections re target, and adding it would make things harder to publish a PER [2]. So, the current Editors Draft again took the attribute out from the DTD [3]. [1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-html-editor/2007JanMar/0033.html [2] http://www.w3.org/2008/06/18-xhtml-minutes#item03 [3] http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/2009/ED-xhtml11-20090106/xhtml11_dtd.html#a_xhtml11_driver Regards, -- Masataka Yakura <myakura.web@gmail.com>
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