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Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/elements.html Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#global-attributes Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#global-attributes Comment: no width, height, name, and other critical attributes Posted from: 24.22.56.37 User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:13.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/13.0.1
many of the global attributes we have known and used for years and years have suddenly disappeared from whatwg and w3c drafts. critical things like width, height, name are what pops into my mind right off. the global attributes list used to be about 2-3x longer or something like that, and something must have happened to delete them (accidental comment?). If I were to use the draft as it stands now, I could not make my own web site.
They haven't suddenly disappeared. Those that have previously existed still, do, they're just obsolete and listed in the "obsolete" section. Those that have never existed (e.g. <div width>) were never listed in any spec so they're still not listed.
well, what about tables? it has traditionally had at least width and height for it and tr and th and td. is all this going away in favor of css?