- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 21:25:51 +0000 (UTC)
On Tue, 11 Jul 2006, Anne van Kesteren wrote: > > > > > > Furthermore, attribute values other than > > > "true", "false" or the empty string "" cause the attribute to be > > > ignored. > > > > Why? Do we really need to support this? What pages depend on this? > > Can you give me a good reason to deviate from what Internet Explorer does? A lot of what IE does is completely insane. While what we do should _work_ in IE, that doesn't mean that everything IE does should work in all browsers. At the extreme edge of this we have things like the cases where IE crashes, but this is just another instance of it -- why have a three-state attribute when you can just as easily have a two-state attribute? We're not just sheep, following whatever Microsoft does. We have to think about the value of the features we are adding. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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