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

Bjoern Hoehrmann derhoermi at gmx.net
Thu Oct 19 18:05:48 PDT 2006


* Ian Hickson wrote:
>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.

It is very common to see code such as:

  echo "<foo bar=" . htmlescape($userinput) . ">...";
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