- From: James Graham <jg307@cam.ac.uk>
- Date: Thu, 01 Jul 2004 20:41:42 +0100
James Graham wrote: > I was having thoughts about a somewhat similar feature - the ability to > specify a input 'language' for a text-area Thnking a little more, I think that the first partt of this idea alone (i.e. an attribute to specify the data type expected in a text area) would be useful enough to implement alone. This would allow browsers to implement syntax highlighting, check for XML well-formedness and provide access to helper applications relevant to the data type. So something that would roughly work: Add an optional dataformat (better name?) attribute that takes a URI. For XML formats, this will typically be the namespace of the format, for other formats it must simply be globally unique. Additionally, specify a set of string -> URI mappings for common formats such as HTML, XHTML and others so they may be identified by the shorter string (which must not be a valid URI) rather than the long URI. The behavior of the UA in response to the presence of the attribute is not specified. -- "If anybody ever tells you that you?re using the language incorrectly, just yell 'prescriptive grammarian!' at the top of your voice and all the linguists in the building will run over and surround the guy... and then they?ll rough him up"
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