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

[Ian Hickson]

On Fri, 20 Oct 2006, Bjoern Hoehrmann wrote:
>
> * 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) . ">...";

...and that will also be compliant, assuming $userinput doesn't have any 
spaces or ">" characters in it. We can't do much about the case where it 
has spaces or ">" characters in it, since we are constrained by how legacy 
UAs parse HTML.

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