[whatwg] how to handle minimised attributes in HTML5

[Ian Hickson]

On Tue, 26 Apr 2005, Henri Sivonen wrote:
> 
> What do you suggest the parser layer of an text/html conformance checker 
> say about <input checkbox ...>?
> 
> 1. Silently treat as <input type="checkbox" ...>?
> 2. Treat as <input type="checkbox" ...> but warn?
> 3. Treat as <input checkbox="checkbox" ...> causing an error to be reported on
> a higher layer?
> 4. Treat as fatal error in the parser?

5. Treat as <input checkbox="">

The only exception, I believe, would be for <table border>, which would 
instead be treated as <table border="1">.

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