Re: OT: Defending HTML4 (was: Re: Chelume - My Conlang website up.)
| From: | John Cowan <cowan@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, January 9, 2004, 6:06 |
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Mark J. Reed scripsit:
> My only beef with XHTML is the way Boolean attributes were treated;
> e.g. <input type="checkbox" checked="checked" />
> instead of checked="true" or checked="yes" or checked="on" or something
> like that.
In proper SGML (and HTML is a particular application of SGML) saying
"<input checked>" means the same as <input checked="checked">, so that's
why the latter is correct XML; the first form is just a standard SGML
abbreviation (that XML does not support) for the second.
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