Re: Minor corrections to the new HTML 2.0 draft spec (fwd)

karen@hal.com (Karen Muldrow)
Date: Mon, 22 Aug 94 14:31:31 EDT
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Subject: Re: Minor corrections to the new HTML 2.0 draft spec (fwd)
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On August 2nd, Paul Burchard sent some comments asking for minor
improvements to the html specification.  I don't have time to incorporate
these comments, but they should be archived for whoever takes over writing
the spec.  Thank you, Paul, for your time and attention in helping
improve the draft:

***BEGIN COMMENTS***

On to further fine-tuning of the spec...

There are still some problems with the example FORMs, in both
the "HTML Specification Abstract" and the "Forms and Input
fields" introduction.  I've included below the complete
corrected text of each example, exactly as it should appear
(including capitalization).

In the first case, I've entered it as literal text, since I
don't have the source of the table image.  In the second case,
the text is suitable for insertion in the HTML version of the spec,
being PRE-formatted HTML which renders into the HTML of the form.
In each case, I've run the resulting HTML of the form through
Dan's validator, to make sure there are no syntax errors.


<form method="POST"
 action="http://www.hal.com/sample">
<p>Your name: <input name="name" size="48">
<p>Male <input name="gender" type=radio
 value="male">
<p>Female <input name="gender" type=radio
 value="female">
<p><input type=submit>
</form>


<PRE>
&lt;title>Sample Questionnaire&lt;/title>
<BR>&lt;h1>Sample Questionnaire &lt;/h1>
<BR>Please fill out this questionnaire:
<BR>&lt;form method="POST" action="http://www.hal.com/sample">
<BR>&lt;p>Your name: &lt;input name="name" size="48">
<BR>&lt;p>Male &lt;input name="gender" type=radio value="male">
<BR>&lt;p>Female &lt;input name="gender" type=radio value="female">
<BR>&lt;p>Cities in which you maintain a residence:
<BR>&lt;ul>
<BR>&lt;li>Kent &lt;input name="city" type=checkbox value="kent">
<BR>&lt;li>Miami &lt;input name="city" type=checkbox value="miami">
<BR>&lt;li>Other &lt;textarea name="other" cols=48 rows=4>&lt;/textarea>
<BR>&lt;/ul>
<BR>&lt;p>Nickname: &lt;input name="nickname" size ="42">
<BR>&lt;p>Thank you for responding to this questionnaire.
<BR>&lt;p>&lt;input type=submit> &lt;input type=reset>
<BR>&lt;/form>
</PRE>


Here are some very minor adjustments.  There is a missing
= sign in the description of the SIZE attribute of the INPUT
element:

<KBD>input type text
size="24"</KBD>

which should read:

<KBD>input type=text
size="24"</KBD>

Also in the same file, I think it would be more prudent to
change the two instances of the following text:

for use only with
<CODE>type=image</CODE>

to something like:

for use only with
<CODE>type=image</CODE> in HTML Level 2

because HTML 3.0 will very likely use SRC and ALIGN
attributes with other types of INPUT widgets -- including
some already defined in Level 2.

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Karen