On Thu, 19 Oct 2006, Simon Pieters wrote: > > If it is desireable that conforming HTML5 documents that use a common > subset of HTML4 and HTML5 would be valid HTML4 if the doctype was > switched
It isn't, IMHO. I don't really see why that would be a useful goal. > then slashes in unquoted attribute values should cause a parse error. It is very common to see markup such as: <a href=http://example.com/>Example</a> I don't see any good reason to make that non-conforming in HTML5. Cheers, -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
