On Thu, Jul 01, 2010 at 03:40:56PM +0200, Peter Lind wrote: <snip> > Apart from that, html5 is not going to do away with the name > attribute. And name is in xhtml1 and html4.01 and there's no mention > of it being obsolete, deprecated or in any other fashion on the way > out. > > As far as reference: the source. > http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/dtds.html#a_dtd_XHTML-1.0-Strict very > clearly specifies that name is still a very valid attribute. > http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/interact/forms.html#h-17.4 shows the same > in a slightly more readable format - the only mentions of anything > deprecated (there are no references to anything obsolete) are for the > isindex element and the align attribute of the legend element. > > What is the case regarding the name attribute is that it's been > deprecated for a few elements (such as a, form, frame, img) in XHTML1 > and will be removed in XHTML2 (which we'll likely never see used in > browsers). See http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/#h-4.10 All this is fortunate, since I don't think PHP is even aware of the ID attribute. Imagine trying to process form fields without the "name" attribute being present. Paul -- Paul M. Foster -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
