- From: Alex Blewitt <ukasb001@cerberus.ioshq.com>
- Date: Wed, 4 Aug 1999 05:27:08 -0400 (EDT)
- To: Todd Fahrner <fahrner@pobox.com>
- cc: Chris Wilson <cwilso@MICROSOFT.com>, www-html@w3.org
On Tue, 3 Aug 1999, Todd Fahrner wrote: > At 9:47 AM -0700 8/3/99, Chris Wilson wrote: > >Except that this would be a significant and incompatible change from HTML > >4.0. > > > >-Chris Wilson > > FWIW, all released versions of Internet Explorer for MacOS fail with > HTML's checked="checked" syntax. It has been reported to me, however, > that they succeed with a boolean checked="true|false" syntax. Would > make an interesting backwards compatibility case for changing to a > boolean in XHTML if other deployed UAs also recover gracefully from > this syntax. The boolean yes/no could easily be true/false - it just seemed to be more sensible to have a standard /true/false/yes/no/ option rather than 'checked=checked' 'disabled=disabled' 'selected=selected'. I have also heard that selected="true" works on most systems - does it not make sense to define some %Boolean; 'type' for a true/false value therefore? > ><!ENTITY % Boolean "(true|false)" "false"> [mod] Alex. /***************************************************************\ |* Alex Blewitt * Hug, and the world hugs with you *| |* Alex.Blewitt@ioshq.com * *| |* Mobile: +44 966 158647 * Spread a little happiness *| \***************************************************************/
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