- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2005 14:46:06 +0000 (UTC)
On Mon, 18 Jul 2005, fantasai wrote: > Ian Hickson wrote: > > On Mon, 18 Jul 2005, fantasai wrote: > > > > > In HTML 4, the 'href' attribute of the <base> element is #REQUIRED. > > > Is there a reason why in HTML 5 it is not required? > > > > What's the point in making it required? > > What's the point in making the <img> element's 'src' attribute required? I don't know, I haven't finished that section yet. I expect to change that section eventually to say something like "src is required if alt is present" and "alt is required if src is present", or some such, but I haven't thought about it yet. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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