On Fri, 22 Jun 2007 04:19:53 +0200, Ian Hickson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
<a =="">
Safari, Opera and Firefox drop the attribute. IE has an attribute with
the name being the empty string and the value being ="". The HTML5
parsing spec says that there should be an attribute with the name = and
the value the empty string. The "Before attribute name state" part of
the parsing spec might have to be revisited.
I don't see any harm in leaving the spec as-is here, given the lack of
interoperability and the fact that there's no real reason to be using
attributes with this name anyway. Whatever's simplest to implement is
probably best here.
Since it doesn't match any browser, and probably is an authoring mistake
(that would silently pass conformance checking in the case of <embed>),
could it be a parse error? (Also update the wording in the syntax section
if so.)
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Simon Pieters
