- From: Richard A. O'Keefe <ok@atlas.otago.ac.nz>
- Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 10:23:15 +1200 (NZST)
- To: h.rzepa@ic.ac.uk, html-tidy@w3.org
- Cc: g.gkoutos@ic.ac.uk
Henry Rzepa wrote: so, should one in general <<suppress>> or <<transform>> "illegal" attributes, elements and the like? Yes. Or rather, it all depends. On _which_ attribute, _why_ the HTML is being tidied, _whether_ an acceptable transformation exists, _what_ the output is to be used with. Obviously, if you have HTML-for-browser-foo using attributes that are specific to browser foo, and you want to use the tidied HTML with browser foo, a default behaviour of leaving non-standard attributes just the way they are is pretty much ideal. Equally obviously, if (as happens to be the case here), there are attributes you never wanted in the first place but the editor you use insists on putting them in, you want them deleted. Even more obviously, if there is important presentation information which _can_ be expressed in a standard way using style sheets, you'd like to do that (so that browser Bar can handle the file), but you might well want to keep the old attributes as well (so that old browser Foo, which can't handle CSS2 yet, can still render the file). It's the kind of problem options files are designed to help with.
Received on Tuesday, 11 July 2000 18:23:25 UTC