- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2012 22:31:01 +0000 (UTC)
On Tue, 26 Jul 2011, Christoph P?per wrote: > > Anne van Kesteren: > > I'm still trying to get HTML and browsers to change so that attribute > > values always match case-sensitively, irrespective of markup language. > > The current magic attribute list in HTML whose values needs to be > > matched ASCII case-insensitively is just ugly. > > Can?t that be changed to something like the following? > > When an attribute takes as a value > ? a single keyword or > ? a whitespace-separated list of keywords, > where all valid keywords are defined in this spexcification, > these keywords are ASCII case-insensitive. > All other attribute values are case-sensitive. > > or just > > All element names, attribute names and attribute value keywords > defined in this specification are ASCII case-insensitive. > All other attribute values are case-sensitive. The spec changed recently in response to Anne's efforts here. If this is an area of interest, I encourage you to study the specification to see if the current requirements are satisfactory. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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