- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2005 22:16:43 +0000 (UTC)
On Mon, 12 Dec 2005, dolphinling wrote: > > > > What is the reasoning? I think it is very useful that they apply to > > every element, including non-XHTML elements. > > Because they're form attributes, they have no relation to anything > except forms. Semantically, there's no reason they *should* apply to any > non-form elements. If I'm writing a story (with contenteditable), and I have some UI to add more paragraphs (that interacts directly with the DOM for the repetition stuff, even), then they could apply without any forms present at all. > If HTML were namespaced FWIW, as of HTML5, it is. > I would say that form elements should be in their own namespace. I'm not sure what you mean here. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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