Andrew Clover wrote: > > > > > Robert Koberg <rob@koberg.com> wrote: > >> I understand that. I was asking why. > > > HTML (as standardised) adopted an existing idiom for flags. Attribute > minimisation is gone in XML, but the legacy remains (and must do for UA > compatibility). > One last thing (I promise :). While it might be true that templating languages should accomodate the reality of the more predominate XHTML, I doubt any will... Since it really seems to be a flaw in XHTML (xml accomodating sgml and legacy apps), what argument would convince them to change? Especially since most would give a rat's ass to accomodate XML. best, -RobReceived on Tuesday, 29 March 2005 02:27:33 GMT
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.2.0+W3C-0.50 : Monday, 6 April 2009 12:59:27 GMT