- From: Dão Gottwald <dao@design-noir.de>
- Date: Sun, 01 Jul 2007 22:08:15 +0200
- To: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>, "public-html@w3.org" <public-html@w3.org>
Henri Sivonen schrieb: > > On Jun 15, 2007, at 04:11, Ben Boyle wrote: > >> If so... The concept of default values goes way back into DTDs (and I >> suspect SGML). It's pretty standard practice to define defaults when >> defining a language I think. It's expected. > > HTML5 does not do SGML-style attribute defaulting because real browsers > don't do it. That is, if you examine the DOM with the DOM Core methods, > you don't get spec-defined default value when an attribute is absent or > has an unrecognized value. True. > The default state says what state the UA is required to assume when the > attribute is absent or has an unrecognized value. This does not change > the value in the DOM. It doesn't change the attribute, but it does change the corresponding DOM property which is also defined by the spec; it represents the "state" in all circumstances. Dao
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