- From: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
- Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2008 16:39:56 +0100
- To: "Julian Reschke" <julian.reschke@gmx.de>, "Philip Taylor" <pjt47@cam.ac.uk>
- Cc: "Ian Hickson" <ian@hixie.ch>, public-html@w3.org
On Wed, 31 Dec 2008 16:03:51 +0100, Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de> wrote: > I just checked some (~10) that are reported for lang:html, and it seems > that a significant amount of them actually reflect empty textareas, be > it by mistake, or because the content actually is XHTML (potentially > served as HTML). I'm assuming here you had this search: http://www.google.com/codesearch?q=%3Ctextarea[^%3E]*%2F%3E+lang%3Ahtml > These cases would be *fixed*, not *broken*, by allowing the empty > element notation. Really? dojo/1.0.2/dijit/tests/form/Form.html (result 1) and trunk/Jmol-documentation/script_documentation/examples-11/save.htm (result 2) depend on <textarea/> being treated like <textarea>. eformmail-2.0/doc/example_form.html (result 3) would indeed work better with <textarea/> meaning <textarea></textarea>. (But then it might be that it's an XML document with the wrong file extension given that it uses the XHTML namespace and all.) trunk/database/ui/create-object.html (result 4) is the fourth result, also works better with <textarea/> meaning <textarea>. frontend/application/demobrowser/source/demo/io/HttpRequest_1.html (result 5) would indeed work better with <textarea/> meaning <textarea></textarea>. (Though the difference hardly matters as far as I can tell.) TurboGears-0.9a7/docs/docs/tutorials/wiki20/page3.html (result 6) the <textarea/> here is inside a CDATA block which is inside another (properly closed) <textarea>. It seems to be some kind of Python templating language. (The next result is identical.) tapestry-4.0-alpha-3/framework/src/test-data/context20/Three.html (result 8) doesn't really look like HTML (jwcid attributes?). increasing-form-usability-example.html (result 9) has <textarea/></textarea>. trunk/index.html (result 10) depends on <textarea/> meaning <textarea>. In conclusion: In 4/10 <textarea/> should mean <textarea>. In 2/10 <textarea/> should mean <textarea></textarea>. (Though both are demos and don't seem to have had much testing.) In 3/10 there is no HTML. In 1/10 it doesn't matter. -- Anne van Kesteren <http://annevankesteren.nl/> <http://www.opera.com/>
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