JustificationForDroppingAttributes

Justification for Dropping Attributes

Accessibility related

• DroppedAttributeAccesskey:accesskey attribute on a, area, button, input, label, legend and textarea
• LongdescRetention:longdesc attribute on img and iframe
• SummaryForTABLE:summary attribute on table

Table related

• DroppedAttributeAxis:axis and abbr attributes on td and th
• DroppedAttributeHeaders:headers attribute on td and th
• DroppedAttributeScope:scope attribute on td (starter page)

Metadata related

• DroppedAttributeProfile:profile attribute on head (starter page)
• DroppedAttributeScheme:scheme attribute on meta (starter page)
• DroppedAttributeVersion:version attribute on html (starter page)
• DroppedAttributeCharset:charset and language attributes on script (starter page)
• DroppedAttributeRev:rev and charset attributes on link and a (starter page)

Associating style sheet data

• StyleAttribute:style attribute on all elements with the exception of font

Embedding related

• DroppedAttributeArchive:archive, classid, codebase, codetype, declare and standby attributes on object (starter page)
• DroppedAttributeValuetype:valuetype and type attributes on param (starter page)

Dropped in favor of @id for a unique identifier

• DroppedAttributeName:name attribute on map, img, object, form, iframe, a (use id instead) (starter page)

Frame/iframe related

• DroppedAttributeTarget:target attribute on link (starter page)

Client-side image-map related

• DroppedAttributeNohref:nohref attribute on area (starter page)
• DroppedAttributeShape:shape and coords attributes on a (starter page)