- From: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 22:37:37 +0300
On Apr 27, 2005, at 13:09, Ian Hickson wrote: > On Tue, 26 Apr 2005, Henri Sivonen wrote: >> >> What do you suggest the parser layer of an text/html conformance >> checker >> say about <input checkbox ...>? >> >> 1. Silently treat as <input type="checkbox" ...>? >> 2. Treat as <input type="checkbox" ...> but warn? >> 3. Treat as <input checkbox="checkbox" ...> causing an error to be >> reported on >> a higher layer? >> 4. Treat as fatal error in the parser? > > 5. Treat as <input checkbox=""> Why? XHTML requires "boolean attributes" to be represented as foo='foo'. If <input checked ...> was treated as <input checked='' ...>, one could not reuse XHTML schemas on top a minimal text/html flavor parser. > The only exception, I believe, would be for <table border>, which would > instead be treated as <table border="1">. Do you mean <table border> should pass a conformance check? -- Henri Sivonen hsivonen at iki.fi http://hsivonen.iki.fi/
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