On Thursday 10 March 2005 09:07 am, Andras Mantia wrote:
> > > But I would consider the alt attribute as a special case. Or am I
> > > wrong?
>
> I don't see it to be special. I think there are other attributes in HTML
> and not only which are required, but many do not put there or put with
> an empty value as "it is not needed in most cases". I don't think
> Quanta should support bad programming habits. ;-) It follows the
> following paradigm, which is quite logical IMO: an attribute with an
> empty value is just the same as the tag without that attribute.
> Exception are those "boolean" attributes.

That's what I love about Andras. Before we began working together we discussed 
our philosophy of approach to design for months and we were not only quite 
compatible, but he also understood clearly where I would come down on 
something. In a nutshell, when someone wants to rationalize or justify what 
amounts to bad practice they set about looking for exceptions for which they 
can assert invalidate the rules. They never just say they want to use a bad 
practice. Our policy is that we don't want to prevent any methodology you 
choose to use in your design. Andras even explained how to do it, while 
advising against it. We will however go out of our way to design applications 
to encourage good practices and won't go out of our way to facilitate less 
than ideal practices.

The comment about empty attributes is particularly entertaining as in PHP
if (!$alt)
 echo "there is no value set"
would evaluate to true if $alt="". 
;-)
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