- From: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
- Date: Wed, 01 Apr 2009 17:33:23 +0200
- To: www-style@w3.org
I was wondering if there was any chance I could convince implementors to remove the magic list of attribute names whose values are matched again in an ASCII case-insensitive way when the style sheet is associated with an HTML document. The list mainly consists of obsolete presentational attributes though every time we'd add a new attribute to HTML it would have to be added here too (e.g. contenteditable, spellcheck, required, etc.) and would have to be tested, et cetera, while there is no real benefit for developers. Also we allow other languages to be embedded in HTML documents these days through the DOM and in the future MathML and SVG can be embedded through syntax as well. This increases the chance that one of the ASCII case-insensitive HTML attributes will clash with a case-sensitive attribute there though the latter will still be matched in an ASCII case-insensitive way. Internet Explorer 6 and 7 always did case-sensitive matching here so it seems the risk of changing is still small. -- Anne van Kesteren http://annevankesteren.nl/
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