- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2006 01:29:46 +0000 (UTC)
On Fri, 20 Oct 2006, Bjoern Hoehrmann wrote: > > * Ian Hickson wrote: > >It is very common to see markup such as: > > > > <a href=http://example.com/>Example</a> > > > >I don't see any good reason to make that non-conforming in HTML5. > > It is very common to see code such as: > > echo "<foo bar=" . htmlescape($userinput) . ">..."; ...and that will also be compliant, assuming $userinput doesn't have any spaces or ">" characters in it. We can't do much about the case where it has spaces or ">" characters in it, since we are constrained by how legacy UAs parse HTML. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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