- From: Silvia Pfeiffer <silviapfeiffer1@gmail.com>
- Date: Sun, 3 Jan 2010 22:14:41 +1100
- To: Chris Double <cdouble@mozilla.com>
- Cc: robert@ocallahan.org, Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>, HTMLwg <public-html@w3.org>
On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 7:31 PM, Chris Double <cdouble@mozilla.com> wrote: > On 01/03/2010 7:53 PM, Silvia Pfeiffer wrote: >> Even tinyvid.tv - Chris Double's test platform for Mozilla >> - is using autobuffer="true" and controls="controls" as attributes. > > tinyvid.tv has nothing to do with Mozilla. Just thought I'd clear that up. > > The use of 'autobuffer="something"' is a result of generating the page via > an XML template. You don't have boolean attributes in XML - you must set > them to something. I do the same thing on my blogger based weblog for the > same reason. I assume similar reasons may be the case with some of the other sites that also chose autobuffer="true". There certainly are frameworks around where boolean attributes are difficult to support and the author is forced to assume a value. We might do ourselves a favour by introducing proper values. Existing values of choice seem to be "true" and "", so maybe "true" and "false" are a better choice than "on" and "off"? Regards, Silvia.
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