[whatwg] Parsing: Disallow slashes in unquoted attribute values?

[Ian Hickson]

On Thu, 19 Oct 2006, Simon Pieters wrote:
> 
> If it is desireable that conforming HTML5 documents that use a common 
> subset of HTML4 and HTML5 would be valid HTML4 if the doctype was 
> switched

It isn't, IMHO. I don't really see why that would be a useful goal.


> then slashes in unquoted attribute values should cause a parse error.

It is very common to see markup such as:

   <a href=http://example.com/>Example</a>

I don't see any good reason to make that non-conforming in HTML5.

Cheers,
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