[whatwg] attribute value normalization
Christoph Päper
christoph.paeper at tu-clausthal.de
Thu Jul 21 08:10:49 PDT 2005
Anne van Kesteren:
> It should basically not happen at all. It appears that no browser has
> implemented the 'may' from HTML4
That's the logic of tagsoup parsers, i.e. their inconsistency regarding
authoring sloppiness. If it had been "should not", they would probably
do it. ;)
Did you also try (true) XHTML1?
> and therefore we can now say browsers must not trim.
IMO trimming is still desired behavior (and fairly easy to do),
therefore "must not" is way too strong.
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