- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2007 01:07:00 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>
- Cc: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>, Sam Ruby <rubys@us.ibm.com>, www-archive <www-archive@w3.org>, "Michael(tm) Smith" <mike@w3.org>
On Wed, 5 Dec 2007, Dan Connolly wrote: > > > > Even "Bad value text for attribute type on XHTML element input." is > > technically correct although not exactly helpful (see error class 4 > > below). This message is the #1 usability bug, BTW. > > I think it's a spec bug. > > I don't think it's cost-effective to try to constrain authors in this > respect. I hope this constraint is dropped from HTML 5. It's actually a relaxation of constraints in HTML4. In HTML4 the element isn't allowed there at all, but we figured that was too strict when it came to the type="hidden" value elements, since those don't affect the user at all (they're hidden by definition). -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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