- From: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2010 23:13:16 -0700 (PDT)
"Darin Adler" <darin at apple.com> wrote: > One of the things I like about the current serialization rules is that > the engine can parse and then serialize something for an element that > is not yet known to the engine and it behaves no differently than one > that is know. Attributes are simply strings. Having a different rule > for boolean attributes would change that. Not a major concern, but > something that bothers me slightly. It?s one thing to be HTML-aware > and another to be future-of-HTML-aware. Having to have a list of boolean attributes bothers me, too, from a forward compat (and testing) point of view. It's bad enough that the serializer has to have a list of void elements. Since it's possible to make the serializer not require a list of boolean attributes, I think we should choose the path the doesn't require a list. -- Henri Sivonen hsivonen at iki.fi http://hsivonen.iki.fi/
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