- From: Todd Fahrner <todd@verso.com>
- Date: Sat, 27 Mar 1999 18:08:30 -0500 (EST)
- To: www-html@w3.org
I hope I'm wrong about this:
XHTML documents containing formerly minimizable attributes don't work in
current browsers.
In HTML, these constructs are common:
<input checked>
<option selected>
<ul compact>
<textarea wrap> (ns extension)
<td nowrap> (deprecated, but needed even in IE5 since it still doesn't
implement CSS1)
In XHTML, however, these must become:
<input checked="checked">
<option selected="selected">
<ul compact="compact">
<textarea wrap="wrap">
<td nowrap="nowrap">
...and in my testing with today's browsers, this syntax fails to deliver the
hoped-for results. I've tried adding whitespace in various places (a la <br
/>) without success.
This is a real deterrent to using XHTML for, say, tables and forms:
precisely the application where machine-generation and powerful
XML/DOM-based stuff is most compelling.
Again, I hope I'm wrong. But if I'm not, shouldn't this nasty fact be noted
in sections 4.2, 5, and Appendix C of the WD?
--
Todd Fahrner The printed page transcends space and time.
mailto:fahrner@pobox.com The printed page, the infinitude of books,
http://style.verso.com/ must be transcended. THE ELECTRO-LIBRARY.
- El Lissitzky, 1923
Received on Monday, 29 March 1999 03:16:28 UTC