- From: Philip Taylor <pjt47@cam.ac.uk>
- Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2008 14:32:12 +0000
- To: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- CC: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>, Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>, public-html@w3.org
Julian Reschke wrote: > Anne van Kesteren wrote: > > post-HTML4 is not and will lead to even bigger confusion. (Authors are > > already pretty confused that they have write e.g. <textarea></textarea> > > rather than <textarea/>. See e.g. the amount of duplicates on > > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=162653 Your suggestion > > would just make that worse.) > > So how many pages would we break if we actually made "<textarea/>" > equivalent to "<textarea></textarea>"? If I search for the pattern (?i)<textarea[^>]*/> in about 130K pages from dmoz.org earlier this year, then all I find is: http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0013/boal.shtml -- <textarea id="frmComment" name="comment" rows="6" cols="30"/></textarea> http://www.hockeycanada.ca/ -- partbody += "<textarea id=\"" + qn + "\" name=\"" + qn + "\" class=\"survey\" cols=\"" + qwidth + "\" rows=\"" + qheight + "\" />" + qa + "<\/textarea>"; http://www.arhitektura.co.yu/ -- <textarea type="text" cols="27" class="inputbox" rows="4" name="msg" maxlength="80" onkeypress="return handleEnter(this, event)"/></textarea> Only the second of those would break (and only if qa != ""). So it's not a relatively widespread issue in that set of the pages. http://www.google.com/codesearch?q=%3Ctextarea%5B%5E%3E%5D*%2F%3E finds more that would break: http://www.google.com/codesearch/p?hl=en#XKPvETtl-JY/views/default/canvas/layouts/widgets.php&q=%3Ctextarea%5B%5E%3E%5D*/%3E -- <textarea type="textarea" value="Left widgets" style="display:none" name="debugField1" id="debugField1" /><?php echo $leftcolumn_widgets; ?></textarea> http://www.google.com/codesearch/p?hl=en#m6yMHImV59o/XoopsCore/releases/2.3.1-rc/htdocs/modules/system/admin/banners/banners.php&q=%3Ctextarea%5B%5E%3E%5D*/%3E -- <textarea name='extrainfo' cols='60' rows='10' />$extrainfo</textarea> http://www.google.com/codesearch/p?hl=en#AAy4znGIMUo/spellcheck/trunk/spellchecker/example.php&q=%3Ctextarea%5B%5E%3E%5D*/%3E -- <textarea id="spell_checker2" name="comment2" style="width: 400px; height: 150px;" />This text area does not have a spell checker.</textarea> http://www.google.com/codesearch/p?hl=en#DXnGgsLufFE/releases/RELEASE-0-993/unstable/admin/navigator.php&q=%3Ctextarea%5B%5E%3E%5D*/%3E%5B%5E%3C%5D -- <textarea name='$name' $extras />$value</textarea> and at least dozens more. -- Philip Taylor pjt47@cam.ac.uk
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