- From: Kristjan <kristjanile@gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2011 14:10:55 +0300
- To: "Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd)" <P.Taylor@rhul.ac.uk>
- Cc: www-validator@w3.org
Thank you Philip. All I wanted to suggest was exactly the same - it didn't make sense to use shorthand versions in HTML5 for Polygon and Rectangle values, but not for Circle. Regards, Kristjan On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 11:10 AM, Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd) <P.Taylor@rhul.ac.uk> wrote: > [Off-list] > > Jukka K. Korpela wrote: > >> 16.10.2011 22:46, Kristjan wrote: > >>> Illogical fixes >>> ========================== >>> 1) Changing shape="rectangle" to shape="rect" >>> 2) Changing shape="polygon" to shape="poly" >> >> There's nothing illogical in fixing the markup to match the syntax you are >> trying to comply with. >> >>> If I change shape="circle" to shape="circ" it will give me validation >>> error. >> >> Why would you do that? The value "circ" is flagged as non-conforming in >> HTML5 drafts. > > Oh brilliant : this is what the draft says > > State Keywords Notes > > Circle state circle > circ Non-conforming > Polygon state poly > polygon Non-conforming > Rectangle state > rect > rectangle Non-conforming > > So poor old Joe Punter is expected to remember that Circle > must /not/ be abbreviated but Polygon and Rectangle must. > > Did no-one at all in the WG attend Human Factors Engineering 101 ? > > Groan. > > Philip Taylor > >
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