- From: Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2007 21:52:38 -0600
- To: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- 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 Thu, 2007-12-06 at 01:07 +0000, Ian Hickson wrote: > 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). Oh... I was thinking of something else entirely. Never mind. Thanks for clearing that up before I spent more time on it. -- Dan Connolly, W3C http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/ gpg D3C2 887B 0F92 6005 C541 0875 0F91 96DE 6E52 C29E
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