- From: Simon Pieters <zcorpan@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2007 12:46:12 +0200
On Fri, 22 Jun 2007 04:19:53 +0200, Ian Hickson <ian at hixie.ch> wrote: >> <a ==""> >> >> Safari, Opera and Firefox drop the attribute. IE has an attribute with >> the name being the empty string and the value being ="". The HTML5 >> parsing spec says that there should be an attribute with the name = and >> the value the empty string. The "Before attribute name state" part of >> the parsing spec might have to be revisited. > > I don't see any harm in leaving the spec as-is here, given the lack of > interoperability and the fact that there's no real reason to be using > attributes with this name anyway. Whatever's simplest to implement is > probably best here. Since it doesn't match any browser, and probably is an authoring mistake (that would silently pass conformance checking in the case of <embed>), could it be a parse error? (Also update the wording in the syntax section if so.) -- Simon Pieters
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