- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 23:30:50 +0000 (UTC)
On Wed, 26 Oct 2005, Anne van Kesteren wrote: > Quoting Ian Hickson <ian at hixie.ch>: > > > # A control is said to have no value selected if its value is the > > > # empty string. > > > > > > "empty string" was the bit I was falling over. > > > > But that doesn't have any effect on radio buttons or check boxes. > > (Especially now that I've removed that odd example I mentioned.) > > If you say so. It is not particularly clear to me though, as should be > clear by now. Apparently... but I don't see how it could have any effect. Nothing in the spec says anything about "no value selected" having any effect on radio buttons or check boxes, does it? > > > The normalization happens without DTDs. > > > > Well, yeah, the basic normalisation that happens to any attribute > > including HTML attributes and so forth. But the confusing > > normalisation only occurs with DTDs. > > In HTML I never had the problem that new lines were removed. There is > quite a substantial difference here imho. It's a problem in HTML too (depends on the UA, typically, some are more compliant than others). -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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