[whatwg] WA1: base and href
In HTML 4, the 'href' attribute of the base element is #REQUIRED. Is there a reason why in HTML 5 it is not required? ~fantasai
Re: [whatwg] WA1: base and href
Ian Hickson wrote: On Mon, 18 Jul 2005, fantasai wrote: In HTML 4, the 'href' attribute of the base element is #REQUIRED. Is there a reason why in HTML 5 it is not required? What's the point in making it required? What's the point in making the img element's 'src' attribute required? ~fantasai
Re: [whatwg] WA1: base and href
On Mon, 18 Jul 2005, fantasai wrote: Ian Hickson wrote: On Mon, 18 Jul 2005, fantasai wrote: In HTML 4, the 'href' attribute of the base element is #REQUIRED. Is there a reason why in HTML 5 it is not required? What's the point in making it required? What's the point in making the img element's 'src' attribute required? I don't know, I haven't finished that section yet. I expect to change that section eventually to say something like src is required if alt is present and alt is required if src is present, or some such, but I haven't thought about it yet. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
Re: [whatwg] WA1: base and href
On Monday 2005-07-18 08:44 -0400, fantasai wrote: In HTML 4, the 'href' attribute of the base element is #REQUIRED. Is there a reason why in HTML 5 it is not required? base target=foo is pretty common on pages that use frames. Then again, the web apps spec doesn't seem to mention target at all. -David -- L. David BaronURL: http://dbaron.org/ Technical Lead, Layout CSS, The Mozilla Foundation pgpye2wgfMVRX.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [whatwg] WA1: base and href
L. David Baron wrote: On Monday 2005-07-18 08:44 -0400, fantasai wrote: In HTML 4, the 'href' attribute of the base element is #REQUIRED. Is there a reason why in HTML 5 it is not required? base target=foo is pretty common on pages that use frames. Then again, the web apps spec doesn't seem to mention target at all. Yes. If 'target' were added to WA1, then I'd say require either 'target' or 'href': I don't see any use in allowing base with no attributes. ~fantasai
