[whatwg] Textarea Wishlist

fantasai fantasai.lists at inkedblade.net
Thu Jul 8 10:55:47 PDT 2004


Lachlan Hunt wrote:

> Ryan Johnson wrote:
> 
>   Although, you've given me another idea.  It would be nice to be able 
> to reference a DTD or Schema that could be used by the UA to validate 
> the user's input as a valid (X)HTML/XML fragment.  That feature would be 
> really helpful with many blogs that currently suffer from validation 
> problems that come with readers posting comments containing markup.

That's a flaw in the weblog software. It should have some kind of
server-side markup validation or fixup, if it's going to allow markup.

~fantasai

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