This should be perfectly fine -- I guess just nobody got around to do it
yet. The main issue with the HTML5 stuff is around date where it is
not clearly specified (or was last time I looked) what the UA should send
and how to handle that in browsers not supporting HTML5 yet (ie sending iso
date/time is not so nice when you want to display it localized). The
required attribute was also problematic in the sense that now hidden
(unused) forms with required would prevent the page from validating etc… So
any change like yours currently, which does not introduce such issues
should be no problem.
Cheers,
Florian
On Friday, July 22, 2016 at 11:30:58 PM UTC+2, Jon Dufresne wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I would like to propose that Django renders the "checked" attribute of
> checkbox and radio inputs using the HTML5 boolean style attributes.
>
> Django has supported HTML5 boolean attributes since 1.8 [0]. It has used
> them internally for the "disabled" attribute since 1.9 [1] and the
> "required" attribute starting with 1.10 [2]. So there is some precedent to
> using the HTML5 style. I find the newer style cleaner and more in line with
> modern conventions.
>
> I have created a ticket [3] with this proposal as well as a PR [4].
>
> One concern raised in the ticket is backwards compatibility with non-HTML5
> doctypes. I'm not aware of any such issues with modern browsers. I have
> tested older doctypes on Firefox and Chrome, both accept the HTML5 boolean
> style with HTML4 and XHTML doctypes. Currently, I do not have access to IE,
> so I am unable to test those cases. If anyone is interested to test, there
> is a very simple test case in the ticket.
>
> Additionally, if there is an issue with older doctypes, presumably this
> issue already exists with the disabled and required attributes.
>
> Just reaching out for feedback, concerns, and comments.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Cheers,
> Jon
>
>
> [0] https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/releases/1.8/#forms
> [1]
> https://github.com/django/django/blob/stable/1.9.x/django/forms/boundfield.py#L88-L89
> [2]
> https://github.com/django/django/blob/stable/1.10.x/django/forms/boundfield.py#L88-L89
> [3] Ticket: https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/26928
> [4] PR: https://github.com/django/django/pull/6961
>
>
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