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Bug 14535 - Section 2.8.1. seems to define things backwards. We should definite the types of IDL attributes that reflect a given type of content attribute.
Summary: Section 2.8.1. seems to define things backwards. We should definite the types...
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: WHATWG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: HTML (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: Unsorted
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: contributor
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
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Reported: 2011-10-21 21:29 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2012-07-18 18:41 UTC (History)
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Description contributor 2011-10-21 21:29:04 UTC 
Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/common-dom-interfaces.html
Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#common-dom-interfaces
Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#common-dom-interfaces

Comment:
Section 2.8.1. seems to define things backwards. We should definite the types
of IDL attributes that reflect a given type of content attribute.

Posted from: 2620:0:1002:1000:225:ff:fef4:531f
User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_8) AppleWebKit/535.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/14.0.835.202 Safari/535.1
Comment 1 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2011-10-25 05:02:13 UTC 
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Status: Rejected
Change Description: no spec change
Rationale: I wish it were that simple. Sadly, consider class="", className, and classList. Or the various width/height content and IDL attributes.