[whatwg] attribute value normalization

Christoph Päper christoph.paeper at tu-clausthal.de
Fri Jul 22 07:00:59 PDT 2005


Anne van Kesteren:
> It appears that no browser has implemented the 'may' from HTML4

Confusingly (at least) Firefox 1.04 does trim tabulators and newlines, 
but not spaces, and only in HTML mode, not in XML mode.

<http://webdesign.crissov.de/temp/whatwg/attribute-normalization.html>
<http://webdesign.crissov.de/temp/whatwg/attribute-normalization.xhtml>

IE6 never trims.



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