- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2005 13:08:38 +0000 (UTC)
On Wed, 6 Jul 2005, fantasai wrote: > > The HTML spec currently does not define all common attributes on all > elements. For example, the i18n attributes are not defined to exist on > the <base> element (because it has no textual content). However, the Web > Apps draft currently applies all common attributes to all elements. Are > there any plans to tailor the list of valid attributes to specific > elements when not all common attributes make sense? No. In practice it is much, _much_ easier to implement if all common attributes apply to all elements. (And indeed in practice that's exactly what many implementations do.) -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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