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Bug 25336 - Why the conforming alternative for the "shape" attribute has been "circle" instead of "circ"? The latter would be more similar to the 4-letter "poly" and "rect" keywords.
Summary: Why the conforming alternative for the "shape" attribute has been "circle" in...
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: WHATWG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: HTML (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 minor
Target Milestone: Unsorted
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: contributor
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
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Reported: 2014-04-13 18:50 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2014-04-14 18:08 UTC (History)
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Description contributor 2014-04-13 18:50:34 UTC 
Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/the-map-element.html
Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#the-area-element
Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#the-area-element
Referrer: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/index.html

Comment:
Why the conforming alternative for the "shape" attribute has been "circle"
instead of "circ"? The latter would be more similar to the 4-letter "poly" and
"rect" keywords.

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Comment 1 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2014-04-14 18:08:24 UTC 
It's mostly arbitrary. "rect" and "poly" and commonly used for meaning "rectangle" and "polygon" and so authors are like to be more comfortable with them. "circ" is rarely used for "circle", in comparison, so it's simpler to just use "circle".