- From: Todd Fahrner <fahrner@pobox.com>
- Date: Tue, 3 Aug 1999 10:40:44 -0700
- To: Chris Wilson <cwilso@MICROSOFT.com>, "'Alex Blewitt'" <Alex.Blewitt@ioshq.com>, www-html@w3.org
At 9:47 AM -0700 8/3/99, Chris Wilson wrote: >Except that this would be a significant and incompatible change from HTML >4.0. > >-Chris Wilson FWIW, all released versions of Internet Explorer for MacOS fail with HTML's checked="checked" syntax. It has been reported to me, however, that they succeed with a boolean checked="true|false" syntax. Would make an interesting backwards compatibility case for changing to a boolean in XHTML if other deployed UAs also recover gracefully from this syntax. >-----Original Message----- >From: Alex Blewitt [mailto:Alex.Blewitt@ioshq.com] >Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 1999 5:09 AM >To: www-html@w3.org >Subject: XHTML > > >I do not particularly like the style of checked="checked" for input types. >It seems a little bit of overkill to have the repetition of 'checked' in the >HTML source. > >Surely a better approach would be to define a binary ENTITY type: > > ><!ENTITY % Boolean "(yes|no)" "no"> > > >and then use that for checked and other things > > ><!ATTLIST input > checked %Boolean; #IMPLIED > disabled %Boolean; #IMPLIED > readonly %Boolean; #IMPLIED > >
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