- From: Jukka K. Korpela <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi>
- Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 19:58:51 +0300 (EEST)
- To: fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>
- Cc: www-html@w3.org, Robert Koberg <rob@koberg.com>, whatwg@whatwg.org
On Thu, 31 Mar 2005, fantasai wrote: > What Jukka's trying to say is, attribute minimalization in SGML -- which > lets you do things like > <input type="checkbox" checked> > doesn't let you leave out the name of the attribute -- it lets you leave > out the *value*. Of course, you meant just the opposite: the name can is omitted (in "classic" HTML), when the value is one of the declared enumerated values of an attribute and no other attribute has such a value that way. > So, for example, I could use attribute minimalization to > shorten the 'type="checkbox"' part like so: > <input checkbox checked> Indeed, i.e. the attribute _names_ input and checked are omitted. Of course, browsers won't grok this except for the latter, since they only know a limited number of special cases. Similarly, <h1 center>, no matter how valid in "classic" HTML, won't work in practice. -- Jukka "Yucca" Korpela, http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/
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