- From: MegaZone <megazone@megazone.org>
- Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2007 18:58:21 -0400
Once upon a time Ian Hickson shaped the electrons to say... > I've defined the parsing and conformance requirements in a way that > matches IE. As a side-effect, this has made things like "naïve" > actually conforming. I don't know if we want this. On the one hand, it's > pragmatic (after all, why require the semicolon?), and is equivalent to > not requiring quotes around attribute values. On the other, people don't > want us to make the quotes optional either. I think the semicolon is important for readability and clarity - where does the entity reference end? There is potential confusion with similarly named entities: ¬ ∉ ∨ ª º π ϖ σ ς ⊂ ⊆ ⊃ ¹ ² ³ ⊇ θ ϑ The semicolon eliminates confusion. Personally I prefer quoted attribute values too, but I don't feel that strongly about it. I just now that with the quotes optional someone is going to try to list space separated 'class' names. ;-) -MZ -- megazone-at-megazone.org http://www.MegaZone.org/ Gweep, Geek, Human, me. http://www.TiVoLovers.com/ http://www.Eyrie-Productions.com/ -><- Hail Eris "A little nonsense now and then, is relished by the wisest men" 508-852-2171
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