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Bug 9072 - There's inconsistent quoting of attributes between the highlighted and non-highlited parts of this section
Summary: There's inconsistent quoting of attributes between the highlighted and non-hi...
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: pre-LC1 HTML5 spec (editor: Ian Hickson) (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: LC
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: HTML WG Bugzilla archive list
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
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Reported: 2010-02-18 17:03 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2010-10-04 13:55 UTC (History)
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Description contributor 2010-02-18 17:03:04 UTC
Section: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#configuring-o-form-to-communicate-with-a-server

Comment:
There's inconsistent quoting of attributes between the highlighted and
non-highlited parts of this section

Posted from: 69.38.170.232
Comment 1 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2010-02-25 06:32:24 UTC
EDITOR'S RESPONSE: This is an Editor's Response to your comment. If you are satisfied with this response, please change the state of this bug to CLOSED. If you have additional information and would like the editor to reconsider, please reopen this bug. If you would like to escalate the issue to the full HTML Working Group, please add the TrackerRequest keyword to this bug, and suggest title and text for the tracker issue; or you may create a tracker issue yourself, if you are able to do so. For more details, see this document:
   http://dev.w3.org/html5/decision-policy/decision-policy.html

Status: Did Not Understand Request
Change Description: no spec change
Rationale: Does it have to be consistent? It's all valid, no? I guess I could quote more of them, or try to come up with some pattern for why things are quoted and why they're not, or something, but...
Comment 2 Sidney San Mart 2010-05-28 15:27:45 UTC
Even though it's valid, I think that quoting inconsistently sets a bad example for authors.

The spec can quote attribute values all the time, or only when required, but the pattern should make sense to someone reading it.
Comment 3 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2010-08-17 19:01:17 UTC
EDITOR'S RESPONSE: This is an Editor's Response to your comment. If you are satisfied with this response, please change the state of this bug to CLOSED. If you have additional information and would like the editor to reconsider, please reopen this bug. If you would like to escalate the issue to the full HTML Working Group, please add the TrackerRequest keyword to this bug, and suggest title and text for the tracker issue; or you may create a tracker issue yourself, if you are able to do so. For more details, see this document:
   http://dev.w3.org/html5/decision-policy/decision-policy.html

Status: Rejected
Change Description: no spec change
Rationale: The examples in the spec intentionally use a wide variety of styles to encourage authors to not consider one style more canonical than another. There's really nothing wrong with this example, other than some people might find it better to be more consistent — but other authors might not, and there really is no reason to prefer one over the other.