[whatwg] contenteditable="" needs fixing

Anne van Kesteren fora at annevankesteren.nl
Tue Jul 11 07:15:48 PDT 2006


Quoting Ian Hickson <ian at hixie.ch>:
>> http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#contenteditable
>> needs some fixing. First of all, matching for the values "true" and
>> "false" as case-insensitive.
>
> Is this really a requirement? I'd rather not have this be
> case-insensitive and other attributes with the same values be
> case-sensitive, etc. I guess we could just make them all
> case-insensitive.

That's fine with me.


>> Furthermore, attribute values other than
>> "true", "false" or the empty string "" cause the attribute to be
>> ignored.
>
> Why? Do we really need to support this? What pages depend on this?

Can you give me a good reason to deviate from what Internet Explorer does?


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Anne van Kesteren
<http://annevankesteren.nl/>




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