- From: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
- Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2007 14:40:30 +0200
- To: "Ben Boyle" <benjamins.boyle@gmail.com>, "HTML WG" <public-html@w3.org>
Some drive-by comments... On Mon, 30 Jul 2007 14:31:06 +0200, Ben Boyle <benjamins.boyle@gmail.com> wrote: > 3.4.1. id attribute > http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/Overview.html#id > This section says the id must contain at least one character, but > doesn't specify any limitations on that character. I thought it was > invalid to have things like id="1" and id="$" > I'm used to following the HTML 4.01 rules: > http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/types.html#type-id - is HTML 5 different? > What are valid id values? Any character minus space characters. (Which follows from the definition given there.) > 3.4.3. The lang (HTML only) and xml:lang (XML only) attributes > http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/Overview.html#lang > Disappointed that this explicitly requires different attributes for > each serialisation (but can't offer a solution). I still think it makes some sense to allow lang= in both. > 3.4.5. class attribute > http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/Overview.html#class > I tracked back through "unordered set of space-separated tokens" to > discover that class names must be "words" but couldn't find the > definition of what was a valid "word". Similar to 3.4.1. (id) I think > there are possibly constraints around tokens? (This information may > very well be in the spec, there just might need to be a link from > these sections so it can be easily found.) HTML5 does not have such restrictions. > 3.4.6. irrelevant attribute > > Got a few tangential comments after reading this. > > Boolean attributes: in XHTML authors would use irrelevant="irrelevant" > and in the DOM irrelevant = true; (I think some may mistakenly use > irrelevant = 'irrelevant'; but that probably works anyway). You can also use irrelevant="" which is slightly shorter and is equivalent to what <div irrelevant> would produce. -- Anne van Kesteren <http://annevankesteren.nl/> <http://www.opera.com/>
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