Posted by usenet+2004 on 10/06/06 12:07

ZabMilenko:

> The long form of attributes has been allowed since AT LEAST html 3.0.

Yes. In fact HTML has always allowed "full" attribute specifications.

Attribute specification minimisation - e.g., <OPTION selected> - is an
optional feature, indicated by SHORTTAG YES in the SGML declaration.

> EVERY browser since Netscape 3.2 has supported it.

That's a big claim.

According to HTML4.01 (now 7 years old), 'many user agents only
recognize the minimized form of boolean attributes and not the full
form'.

--
Jock

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