- From: Murray Maloney <murray@muzmo.com>
- Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 19:38:45 -0500
- To: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Cc: Jirka Kosek <jirka@kosek.cz>,HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>
At 11:30 PM 1/29/2009 +0000, Ian Hickson wrote: >On Thu, 29 Jan 2009, Jirka Kosek wrote: > > > > I'm not asking for listing 40 attributes but for adding just one link > > that will point to section defining these 40 global attributes. So every > > reader will easily find that element XYZ has those 5 element specific > > attributes and also shares other global attributes. > >So you are asking for a link saying "Common attributes" linking to: > > http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#global-attributes > >...to be added to every element's definition? > >I've so far tried to avoid redundant links like that. > >Isn't it self-explanatory that the attributes that apply to every element >also apply to each element listed in the spec...? It may be deducible, but that is not enough. A link would be helpful. That the common attributes are common to every element is a summary of the facts. The facts themselves should be evident. Eschew obfuscation. It is possible to go too far in the cause of eschewing redundancy.
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