25336 2014-04-13 18:50:34 +0000 Why the conforming alternative for the "shape" attribute has been "circle" instead of "circ"? The latter would be more similar to the 4-letter "poly" and "rect" keywords. 2014-04-14 18:08:24 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified WHATWG HTML unspecified Other other RESOLVED WORKSFORME http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#the-area-element P3 minor Unsorted 1 contributor ian ian master.skywalker.88 mike contributor oldest_to_newest 103800 0 contributor 2014-04-13 18:50:34 +0000 Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/the-map-element.html Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#the-area-element Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#the-area-element Referrer: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/index.html Comment: Why the conforming alternative for the "shape" attribute has been "circle" instead of "circ"? The latter would be more similar to the 4-letter "poly" and "rect" keywords. Posted from: 84.222.80.200 by master.skywalker.88@gmail.com User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/34.0.1847.116 Safari/537.36 103828 1 ian 2014-04-14 18:08:24 +0000 It's mostly arbitrary. "rect" and "poly" and commonly used for meaning "rectangle" and "polygon" and so authors are like to be more comfortable with them. "circ" is rarely used for "circle", in comparison, so it's simpler to just use "circle".