[whatwg] Lowercase attribute values

fantasai fantasai.lists at inkedblade.net
Mon Apr 28 14:14:13 PDT 2008


Ian Hickson wrote:
> On Mon, 29 Aug 2005, Henri Sivonen wrote:
>> On Aug 28, 2005, at 09:56, Henri Sivonen wrote:
>>
>>> How should the lowercasing be performed? Using the locale-insensitive
>>> Unicode case data or for ASCII only treating non-ASCII as an error?
>> On further reflection, it seems to me the latter has to be chosen at 
>> least for a parser that is intended to be used as a part of a 
>> conformance checker. Otherwise <input type="RADİO" ... would pass.
> 
> Good point. Ok, ASCII-only it is.

Can't find this in the spec atm, maybe it's on your to-do list. You
need to define what "case-insensitive" means. For some background,
you can see the relevant discussions for CSS
   http://www.w3.org/blog/CSS/2007/12/12/case_sensitivity

~fantasai



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