[whatwg] a few comments to Webforms 2.0 Call For Comments

[Ian Hickson]

On Sat, 31 Jul 2004, Matthew Thomas wrote:
> On 31 Jul, 2004, at 7:00 AM, Matthew Raymond wrote:
>>
>> I recommend that, for HTML documents with the W2 doctype, there should 
>> always be a default option selected, regardless if that default is 
>> specified.
> 
> I like that idea.

I strongly disagree with adding more DOCTYPE-triggered behaviour changes. 
Quirks mode is enough trouble as it is. We don't need yet-more code paths. 
It makes testing hard. :-)

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