- From: Lachlan Hunt <lachlan.hunt@lachy.id.au>
- Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2007 10:34:07 +1000
- To: Terry Morris <lsnbluff@gmail.com>
- CC: public-html <public-html@w3.org>
Terry Morris wrote: > At this point I believe it is up to the W3C to follow this groundswell push > for standards and stricter coding. I've been personally dismayed by the > posts on this list suggesting that old-style coding will be preferred in > HTML5. I don't believe anyone has been suggesting that "old-style coding" is preferred. It's a choice. Some authors may prefer to close all elements, quote all attributes, etc. Others may prefer not to. The spec does not endorse one set of coding conventions over another. On the other hand, some people seem to be promoting that idea that requiring end tags, always quoting attributes, using lowercase tag names, etc. is somehow a superior convention that should be pushed upon everyone. Some even presented evidence of the conventions that some popular authors adhere to, with the assumption that their choices are automatically better than others. Well, it's not a popularity contest. Not everyone agrees that they made all the right choices. Please understand that an author's choice to adhere to a different set of conventions does not reduce the quality of their markup. -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au/
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