- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2009 23:07:51 +0000 (UTC)
On Wed, 5 Aug 2009, Elliotte Rusty Harold wrote: > On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 3:18 AM, Ian Hickson<ian at hixie.ch> wrote: > > > I don't really see why the minor difficulties in the XML syntax would > > affect the semantics here. Could you elaborate on your concern? What > > problem would changing this solve? > > The spec already indicates caution about newlines in title attributes: > "Caution is advised with respect to the use of newlines in title > attributes." It's a bit of a red flag to note warnings like this into > the spec. I.e. features that one is encouraged not to use. Best to take > them out, I think. It would save some grief if newlines were simply > prohibited in title attributes, and were normalized to spaces if they > did appear. The concern is that both human authors and machines pretty > printing the HTML are going to insert line breaks where they don't > actually want them. There have been a _lot_ of requests from authors to include a feature allowing newlines in tooltips, so I don't think we can remove this. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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