- From: Lachlan Hunt <lachlan.hunt@lachy.id.au>
- Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2009 16:39:57 +0200
- To: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Cc: Simon Pieters <simonp@opera.com>, "public-html@w3.org" <public-html@w3.org>
Ian Hickson wrote: > On Fri, 19 Jun 2009, Simon Pieters wrote: >> I think the spec should allow = in unquoted attribute values again, >> because it seems annoying to have to quote href attributes when the URL >> has an =. >> >> The authoring mistakes that banning the = was intended to catch are >> almost always caught by other errors, I think. > > <img src=foo.jpeg alt= class=photo> Sure, there are edge cases that occur with almost every conformance decision we make. It's a trade off. It just depends whether you think it's more valuable to catch errors like that, or to allow something much more common like this, copied from google.com: <a href=/advanced_search?hl=en>Advanced Search</a> Or maybe we can find a solution that works for both scenarios. I'm not sure what might work, though, at least not without making the parsing much more complex. -- Lachlan Hunt - Opera Software http://lachy.id.au/ http://www.opera.com/
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