- From: Todd Fahrner <fahrner@pobox.com>
- Date: Sat, 27 Mar 1999 15:35:04 -0800
- To: www-style@w3.org
[sorry if duplicate - first didn't seem to go through] 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 other 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
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