[whatwg] Allowing ">" in attribute values

Thu Jun 24 06:11:31 PDT 2010

On 06/24/2010 03:43 AM, Anne van Kesteren wrote:
> Why would it simplify parsing?

It greatly simplifies parsing when you just want to extract entire tags,
without immediately parsing the attributes.

>  It's rather nice to allow it for the
> <iframe srcdoc> feature.

The srcdoc already needs to be escaped and unescaped because of quotation
marks, so adding more escaping seems fine to me.

--Ben

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