[whatwg] [html5] tags, elements and generated DOM
Olav Junker Kjær
olav at olav.dk
Wed Apr 6 11:53:30 PDT 2005
Lachlan Hunt wrote:
>> (2) Criteria that cannot be expressed by a DTD, but can still be
>> checked by a machine.
>
> Such as...?
Some examples: The syntax of the numeric and date/time-values or the
pattern attribute. The constraint that values of the min and max
attributes must be valid according to the type of the control. The
constraint that the for-attribute of a label must point to the id of an
existing element.
It's much more important for the functionality of a WF2 page that the
values are valid according to type of the control, than that the page is
valid according to the DTD.
> A user agent *must not* be automatically non-conformant for doing it's
> job correctly!!!
A user agent which only supports some small parts of the spec should not
claim to be compliant with the spec.
regards
Olav Junker Kjær
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