SHORTTAG

Daniel W. Connolly (connolly@www10.w3.org)
Mon, 17 Apr 95 11:57:00 EDT

Glenn Adams writes:
>
> I'm curious about SHORTTAG. Who supports it?

All the browsers do, partly.

> Who decided to specify
> it in the SGML Declaration for HTML?

I did:

revision 1.5
date: 1994/05/17 21:07:49; author: connolly; state: Exp; lines: +24 -4

OMITTAG has been changed to YES for implicit </LI> etc. tags
SHORTTAG has been changed to YES to support
<DL COMPACT> and <IMG ALIGN=top>
as short forms for
<DL STYLE="COMPACT"> and <IMG ALIGN="top">

> Was this discussed much?

Not a whole lot.

But with SHORTTAG NO, you have to quote ALL attribute values.
<DL COMPACT> goes out the window. <IMG ISMAP> goes.

Dan