- From: Liam R E Quin <liam@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2012 12:45:27 -0400
- To: Murray Maloney <murray@muzmo.com>
- Cc: Uche Ogbuji <uche@ogbuji.net>, "public-microxml@w3.org" <public-microxml@w3.org>
On Tue, 2012-08-14 at 11:00 -0400, Murray Maloney wrote: > On 2012-08-14, at 10:50 AM, Uche Ogbuji <uche@ogbuji.net> wrote: > > Unfortunately foo=bar syntax would break backward syntactical > compatibility > I was thinking about HTML. HTML also "allows" <a href=http://www.w3.org/ style="color: red; font-size: 64pt;">W3C</a> (really. try it.) e.g. http://www.holoweb.net/~liam/download/bad.html I don't think allowing people to omit the quotes on attribute values only if some non-HTML set of conditions is met will help HTML authors; it's simpler to require them. Liam -- Liam Quin - XML Activity Lead, W3C, http://www.w3.org/People/Quin/ Pictures from old books: http://fromoldbooks.org/ Ankh: irc.sorcery.net irc.gnome.org freenode/#xml Co-author 5th edition of "Beginning XML," Wrox, July 2012
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