- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2005 12:37:25 +0000 (UTC)
On Mon, 21 Mar 2005, Matthew Raymond wrote: > > > > Elements inside <output> are rendered as elements, with all that that > > implies; there is no special parsing. > > The contents of <output> are the initial value, yet they are not parsed. By "no special parsing" I meant the parsing was the same as for, say, a <span>. i.e. normal HTML parsing rules apply. > > > Since we can't avoid a difference in rendering unless we > > > artificially enforce a no-markup-inside-<output> rule, what does it > > > hurt to simply have a |value| attribute to set the .defaultvalue > > > directly? > > > > The two things are separate. What's the use case for value=""? > > Well, for one, in situations where you want to use <input readonly> as a > fallback container for a calculated value. I don't really understand why you would both with <output> at all, in such a case, since <input readonly> would work fine in both legacy and WF2 UAs. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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