Anne van Kesteren wrote:
Quoting dolphinling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Okay, it still bugs me that template attributes apply to all elements
when I think they should only apply to fieldsets. I do realize though
that because of backwards compatibility and because in current
browsers there are places fieldset can't go, this is impossible.
However, could it be made so the template attributes only apply to
fieldsets and wherever else they need to because of current parsing,
as opposed to all elements?
I believe this would mean it applied to fieldset, tr, and li (and
perhaps td, though that would be a strange thing to do).
What is the reasoning? I think it is very useful that they apply to every
element, including non-XHTML elements.
Because they're form attributes, they have no relation to anything
except forms. Semantically, there's no reason they *should* apply to any
non-form elements.
If HTML were namespaced, I would say that form elements should be in
their own namespace. Application UI (which is what forms are) is useful
in places other than just HTML documents, and the split between
documents and application UI is more than enough to give them each their
own namespace. Even though HTML isn't namespaced, they still should be
split as much as possible.
Additionally, because of the nature of repetition groups, fieldset
semantics are _always_ appropriate.
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dolphinling
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