- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2002 22:43:25 +0000 (GMT)
- To: Terje Bless <link@pobox.com>
- Cc: W3C Validator <www-validator@w3.org>, Peter Favrholdt <pfavr@how.dk>
On Mon, 11 Nov 2002, Terje Bless wrote: > ... > FEATURES > MINIMIZE > SHORTTAG > STARTTAG > EMPTY NO -- outlaws "<>" -- > UNCLOSED NO -- outlaws "<foo" -- > NETENABL NO -- outlaws "<p/text<em/more text/ nested/" -- > ENDTAG > EMPTY NO -- outlaws "</>" -- > UNCLOSED NO -- outlaws "</foo" -- > ATTRIB > DEFAULT YES -- allows defaulted attributes -- > OMITNAME NO -- possibly "YES" for compat; allows "<gi attr>" -- > VALUE NO -- allows unquoted attrs; "<gi att=val>" -- > ... Why would you say NO to OMITNAME and VALUE? Both are reasonably well supported by UAs, and used heavily by authors. Anyway, I still have issues with making the validator lie like this. This isn't what the spec says. The validator should be checking for compliance to the spec; it is not a lint. -- Ian Hickson )\._.,--....,'``. fL "meow" /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. http://index.hixie.ch/ `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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