On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 10:56 AM, Alexey Proskuryakov <[email protected]> wrote: > > 18.06.2010, в 10:25, Jonas Sicking написал(а): > >> Serializing boolean attributes as <option selected="selected"> seems >> like a very bad idea since that means that you're changing the value >> as you serialize. I.e. if you roundtrip by for example setting: >> >> myDivElement.innerHTML = myDivElement.innerHTML >> >> you've change the value of all boolean attribute. > > > That's what Firefox is doing now, and has presumably been doing for a long > time, so maybe it isn't such a bad idea. It's compatible with the Web and > with HTML4.
Just because Firefox does it doesn't mean it's a good idea ;) The fact that it's compatible with the web is definitely important, though are you really worried that serializing as <option selected> isn't compatible with the web? / Jonas
