- From: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@ibiblio.org>
- Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2009 08:01:14 -0700
On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 3:29 AM, Jeremy Keith<jeremy at adactio.com> wrote: > I concur. And I say that as someone who likes the XHTML-like syntax (always > closing tags, always quoting attributes, etc.). I don't think my personal > preference for writing markup should be enforced in the spec; it should be > enforced in the lint tools. If the HTML 5 spec actually enforced anything, I would agree with you. However the HTML 5 spec differs radically from the specs for JavaScript, C++, Java, and so forth in that browsers will still accept non-conforming documents and hopefully parse and render them in a defined way. Making non-quoted attributes non-conformant is more akin to a lint suggestion than a hard and fast ruie. There is no such thing as a compile error in HTML 5. The worst an author will get is a warning, and a reader won't even see that. -- Elliotte Rusty Harold elharo at ibiblio.org
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