[whatwg] Lowercase attribute values

Ian Hickson ian at hixie.ch
Fri Jul 25 02:27:57 PDT 2008


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.

For the most part this is now defined spec-wide. Let me know if any 
individual cases haven't been addressed and I can fix them relatively 
quickkly, now that I have the right infrastructure in place for this.

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