[uf-discuss] a[name] as machine data?

[Scott Reynen]

On May 11, 2007, at 4:03 AM, victor jalencas wrote:

> On 11/05/07, James Craig <jcraig at apple.com> wrote:
>> Ryan King wrote:
>>
>> > a[name has restrictions that input[name] does not have.
>> >
>> ...snip...
>> >
>> > 1. http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/links.html#h-12.2.1
>>
>> Note and removed. Thanks!
>
> Well you could always add a _0, _1, _2, ...etc suffix, couldn't you?

Putting non-unique data into an attribute that requires unique data  
is a misuse of HTML.  Adding meaningless suffixes on the end to make  
the non-unique data appear unique doesn't remove the mistake; it only  
hides it from validators that don't know any better.

Peace,
Scott