On Mon, 14 Jun 2010 08:44:09 +0100, Jonas Sicking <jo...@sicking.cc> wrote:
Agreed on both accounts. Both these suggestions add a lot of complexity to the platform and we should avoid it if at all possible. To the extent that if there is lots of broken sites out there because they happen to use attribute names that collide with HTML5, but only partially match the HTML5 behavior, then we should consider renaming those attributes in HTML5.
I don't agree that there are "lots" of broken sites. My main browser is Opera and I haven't noticed that problem yet.
The fact that there are some sites using 'required' attribute proves that it's a good, intuitive name.
HTML5 is likely to outlive those broken sites. I think it would be shame to change to worse name for HTML's lifetime just to avoid temporary problem with some sites.
-- regards, Kornel Lesiński
