Re: DOM-2 HTML Module Property Types - Treatment of CDATA vs NUMBER DTD Types

On Tue, 2002-09-24 at 13:31, Philippe Le Hegaret wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 2002-09-20 at 20:49, Glenn A. Adams wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > I just noticed that the DOM-2 HTML Spec of June 5, in Section 1.6.1,
> > indicates that the DOM type which corresponds to CDATA is DOMString
> > and the type which corresponds to NUMBER is long int.
> > 
> > This results in an inconsistency based on certain proposed changes
> > from DOM-1 to DOM-2. In particular, the following properties have been
> > assigned in integral type, yet are specified in the HTML/XHTML DTDs as
> > CDATA:
> > 
> > HTMLInputElement	- size
> > HTMLImageElement	- border, height, hspace, width, vspace
> > 
> > I believe these should be reverted to the use of DOMString as
> > specified in DOM-1, and that implementations (IE, Mozilla) be brought
> > into conformance with this definition.
> 
> I disagree. DOM Level 1 HTML failed to fulfil its contracts of not
> breaking the backward compatiblity with DOM Level 0. This comment was
> brought to our attention in at the end of 2000 and we already made the
> commitment to fix that. I don't think it's wise to revert the decision.
> width and height are numbers in DOM0, therefore we cannot change them
> back to numbers unless we expose them in a different way. It is clearly

I meant back to DOMString of course.

Philippe

Received on Tuesday, 24 September 2002 13:38:21 UTC