Re: html 4 name=name

Joseph Myers <[email protected]> Thu, 16 Jan 2020 16:40:44 +0000 (UTC)

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On Thu, 16 Jan 2020, Ralf Schlatterbeck wrote:

> Now my question: Is this expected to work with HTML 4 or is this a bug?
> Should we have an explicit list of attribute names that use the short
> form? Or a blacklist?

The form attribute="attribute" for boolean attributes is fully valid HTML4 
and HTML5.  See 
<https://www.w3.org/TR/html401/intro/sgmltut.html#h-3.3.4.2> and 
<https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/common-microsyntaxes.html#boolean-attributes>.  
So I suggest reverting the previous change.

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Joseph S. Myers
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