Re: short-tag considered unhealthy from Gavin Nicol on 1996-09-12 (w3c-sgml-wg@w3.org from September 1996)

From: Gavin Nicol <gtn@ebt.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 12:49:38 GMT
To: U35395@UICVM.CC.UIC.EDU
CC: lou@vax.ox.ac.uk, w3c-sgml-wg@w3.org
Message-Id: <199609121249.MAA10936@wiley.EBT.COM>

>  - attribute values without quotes around them

God forbid. I've seen far too many HTML pages with things like

   <A HREF=http://foo.bar>

to be comfortable with this. Things like color specifications,
style information etc. etc. will only make errors more common.

I would strongly recommned *requiring* that attribute values be
delimted by LIT or LITA.

Received on Thursday, 12 September 1996 08:51:04 UTC