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Edward Z. Yang 92b3f0e817 [1.3.0] <li value="4"> and <ul start="2"> now allowed in loose mode
- Updated progress with some more impl-no decisions
 - Loose vs. Strict now has better tallying on current behavior
 - Document what we're not allowing in loose
 - Strict boolean indicator added to HTMLDefinition
 - Added XHTML 1.1 to TODO.

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Is HTML Purifier Strict or Transitional?
A little bit of helpful guidance
Despite the fact that HTML Purifier professes only to support transitional
HTML, it rejects a lot of attributes and elements that are actually, indeed,
valid. You can investigate progress.html to find out precisely what we
are doing to these *deprecated* attributes.
However, users have found that Strict HTML imposes some quite unreasonable
restrictions on certain things. The start and value attributes in ol and
li (respectively) perhaps are the most contested. There's is currently no
widely supported browser method short of JavaScript that can replace these
two deprecated elements. HTML Purifier does not currently support them, but
it might behoove us to do so while our output is still transitional.
Fortunantely, that's the only real bugger case. The others have near-perfect
CSS equivalents, and were presentational anyway. However, the other question
pops up: should we always convert these to the CSS forms when 1. the spec
allows them anyway and 2. older browsers support them better? After all, the
whole point about CSS is to seperate styling from content, so inline styling
doesn't solve that problem.
It's an icky question, and we'll have to deal with it as more and more
transforms get implemented. As of right now, however, we currently support
these loose-only constructs in loose mode:
- <ul start="1">, <li value="1"> attributes
- <u>, <strike>, <s> tags
- flow children in <blockquote>
- mixed children in <address>
The changed child definitions as well as the ul.start li.value are the most
compelling reasons why loose should be used. We may want offer disabling <u>,
<strike> and <s> by themselves.