Hi, I would like to propose that Django renders the "checked" attribute of checkbox and radio inputs using the HTML5 boolean style attributes.
Django has supported HTML5 boolean attributes since 1.8 [0]. It has used them internally for the "disabled" attribute since 1.9 [1] and the "required" attribute starting with 1.10 [2]. So there is some precedent to using the HTML5 style. I find the newer style cleaner and more in line with modern conventions. I have created a ticket [3] with this proposal as well as a PR [4]. One concern raised in the ticket is backwards compatibility with non-HTML5 doctypes. I'm not aware of any such issues with modern browsers. I have tested older doctypes on Firefox and Chrome, both accept the HTML5 boolean style with HTML4 and XHTML doctypes. Currently, I do not have access to IE, so I am unable to test those cases. If anyone is interested to test, there is a very simple test case in the ticket. Additionally, if there is an issue with older doctypes, presumably this issue already exists with the disabled and required attributes. Just reaching out for feedback, concerns, and comments. Thanks! Cheers, Jon [0] https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/releases/1.8/#forms [1] https://github.com/django/django/blob/stable/1.9.x/django/forms/boundfield.py#L88-L89 [2] https://github.com/django/django/blob/stable/1.10.x/django/forms/boundfield.py#L88-L89 [3] Ticket: https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/26928 [4] PR: https://github.com/django/django/pull/6961 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers (Contributions to Django itself)" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to django-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to django-developers@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/django-developers. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-developers/CADhq2b6WBJfd0_XWPXPbApdG7KkYAYGNK69joOF3uGgcEvqCFg%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
