- From: Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2007 11:45:37 -0500
- To: Sam Ruby <rubys@us.ibm.com>
- Cc: public-html@w3.org
On Mon, 2007-08-13 at 12:37 -0400, Sam Ruby wrote: > Dan Connolly wrote: > > On Thu, 2007-08-02 at 11:16 -0400, Sam Ruby wrote: > >> Original here: > >> http://intertwingly.net/blog/2007/08/02/HTML5-and-Distributed-Extensibility > >> > > [...] > >> XML permits an alternate syntax, namely default namespaces. In certain > >> circles, such a syntax is very popular. Regrettably, allowing such a > >> syntax would pose problems for back level user agents, and therefore > >> must be disallowed in the HTML5 “custom format”. > > > > I'm not familiar with those problems. I'd like more details; > > maybe even test cases. > > Testcase: > > http://intertwingly.net/stories/2007/08/13/testcase.html > > View it both in IE and in a browser that supports XHTML and SVG. > Compare the title bars. ah... I see... the document sets the default namespace to SVG and then includes a <title> element, but in HTML as she are spoke, that title is taken as an HTML title. Thanks. > Now imagine if I had used the script element: > > http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG11/script.html > > I believe that for backwards compatibility we need to ensure that not > only doesn't any extension use a local-name that may have previously > been used, but also doesn't use any local-name that may every be used in > potential future revisions of HTML. > > - Sam Ruby -- Dan Connolly, W3C http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/
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