On Sun, 11 Apr 2010 11:47:55 +0200, T.J. Crowder <[email protected]>
wrote:
Hi all,
Does the HTML5 specification loosen the rules for the valid values in the
name attribute on form elements? The 4.01 specification said[1]:
ID and NAME tokens must ...
FWIW, HTML4 does not use the NAME token forn name="".
http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/interact/forms.html#adef-name-INPUT
http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/association-of-controls-and-forms.html#attr-fe-name
AFAICT, HTML4 says anything goes in name="", while HTML5 bans the empty
string, so HTML5 actually makes the rules slightly stricter.
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Simon Pieters
Opera Software
