[Javascript] OT: W3C

[Hakan Magnusson]

Not quite true, Shawn.

According to the specification the quotes are required, but you can use 
either single- OR double quotes. I have found no documents claiming that 
single quotes aren't allowed.

http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/intro/sgmltut.html#h-3.2.2

http://www.w3schools.com/xml/xml_attributes.asp

This is why I retracted my original comment.

Regards,
H

Shawn Milo wrote:
> Mike Dougherty wrote:
> 
> Why?
> 
> Because Hakan wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 26 May 2004 10:47:55 +0000
>   Hakan Magnusson <hakan at backbase.com> wrote:
> 
>>You should use double quotes around HTML attributes, but apart from that it looks fine.
>>
>>Regards,
>>H
>>
> 
> 
> The reason for using double quotes around HTML attributes is that the
> W3C (http://www.w3.org/), the standards body which defines HTML, CSS, XHTML, etc., 
> has made that the standard.
> 
> Sloppy HTML, such as using single quotes or no quotes around attributes may work, 
> but they are not "correct", like poor grammar.  At the moment, most major browsers
> accomodate these errors, but the way of web content is increasingly going toward
> different platforms, such as handheld computers and phones, braille displays for the
> blind, and other non-PC browsers.  These browsers, sometimes included in a device
> with an embedded OS and software, will not be able to handle all of the variations
> of bad HTML out there.  That is part of the impetus for XHTML, which is really just
> HTML, but with stricter syntax enforcement.
> 
> Check out the W3C's site for more info, or you can e-mail me privately.  I find 
> coding to XHTML standards to be much more of a benefit than a hinderance.
> 
> Shawn
> 
> 
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