[whatwg] [wf2] Late comments and questions on Web Forms 2.0

Bjoern Hoehrmann derhoermi at gmx.net
Tue Aug 15 06:19:21 PDT 2006


* Ian Hickson wrote:
>> 2.14.
>> "Authors may include an accept  attribute on textarea elements to indicate the
>> type of content expected. User agents may use this attribute to provide more
>> appropriate editors, syntax highlighting, spelling checkers, etc. The value of
>> the attribute must be a single text-based MIME type (for example, text/plain,
>> message/news, image/svg+xml)."
>> 
>> Are MIME type parameters allowed?
>
>Sure. It's just a MIME type.

The draft prohibits parameters; if parameters are allowed the attribute
values should be compared case-sensitively, not c-i as HTML4 defines.
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