- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2006 05:02:24 +0000 (UTC)
On Tue, 15 Aug 2006, Bjoern Hoehrmann wrote: > > Right, I assumed that the accept attribute on textarea is a subset of > the accept attribute on the input element. It is reasonable to assume > that as otherwise the attribute is not really well-defined and because > with very few exceptions, attributes with the same name are pretty much > equivalent in HTML, regardless of which element they are on. > > If they are so different this should be pointed out in the draft, and > the current "The value of the attribute must be a single text-based MIME > type" suggests to me that parameters are not allowed either way. But I > see you understand it's quite vague... I guess I'd prefer if the two > accept attributes were actually the same, there is little reason for > them to be different. Well, they serve different roles... One has a very specific role in deciding what can be uploaded, and the other has a very nebulous role that is more about giving UA vendors ideas than about interoperability. I've allowed parameters explicitly now and mentioned in a note that the two attributes aren't the same. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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