On Thu, 23 Jul 2009 19:32:28 +0100, Eduard Pascual <herenva...@gmail.com>
wrote:
I don't think there's any value in having the spec take a stance like
this. It's a matter of taste, IMO.
While I don't consider a hard requirement would be appropriate, there
is an audience sector this discussion seems to be ignoring: Authoring
Tools' developers. IMO, it would be highly desirable to have some
guidelines for these tools to determine when they *should* quote
attribute values.
I think this requirement is even less relevant for authoring tools:
* It's not a problem for tools to use unquoted attributes in a
perfectly safe manner.
* Not all code generated by tools is intended to be edited by humans,
and in such cases shorter code is likely to be preferred over
human-readable code.
* Tools that offer editing of HTML source code may (and often do) have
syntax highlighting and validation.
--
regards, Kornel Lesinski
