[whatwg] Make quoted attributes a conformance criterion

Mike Shaver mike.shaver at gmail.com
Sun Jul 26 06:06:00 PDT 2009


On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 5:10 AM, Keryx Web<webmaster at keryx.se> wrote:
> Mike, I know what you are doing at Mozilla, and have a ton of respect for
> you. But I fail to see how you could misunderstand my analogy to JSLint. Or
> do you suggest that Doug Crockford should drop manual semi-colon insertion
> from that tool?

I'm suggesting that a tool which produces an error report for all use
of HTML event handler attributes is enforcing Mr Crockford's style,
and not just accepted "best practices", making its requiring of a
trailing semi in such event handler attributes rather
non-authoritative.

Mike



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