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- Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2012 22:32:19 +0000
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https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=16067 Summary: Consistent use of 'no value' attributes. The 'no value' attributes like "selected", "checked" and "required" are being used inconsistently in the examples throughout the HTML5 specifications. Where "required" is always used with no value ('required' vs 'r Product: HTML WG Version: unspecified Platform: Other URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#top OS/Version: other Status: NEW Severity: normal Priority: P3 Component: HTML5 spec (editor: Ian Hickson) AssignedTo: ian@hixie.ch ReportedBy: contributor@whatwg.org QAContact: public-html-bugzilla@w3.org CC: mike@w3.org, public-html-wg-issue-tracking@w3.org, public-html@w3.org Specification: http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/Overview.html Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#top Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#top Comment: Consistent use of 'no value' attributes. The 'no value' attributes like "selected", "checked" and "required" are being used inconsistently in the examples throughout the HTML5 specifications. Where "required" is always used with no value ('required' vs 'required="required"'), the "selected" as well as the "checked" attribute use both the style with and without value ('selected="selected"' and 'selected'). There is also no mention about the possibility to use either of these styles, let alone one style being recommended over the other. Only one style should be used throughout the document, and one of the two should preferably be recommended. Personally I would even opt for a new attribute that takes one of the three attributes above as values. This would get rid of these rather awkward attributes all together. E.g. 'state="selected"', 'state="required"' I, however, do not know how viable such a proposal will be if made by me if it hasn't been by others already. Posted from: 87.195.226.142 User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux i686; rv:10.0.2) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/10.0.2 -- Configure bugmail: https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
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