Re: Why HTML should be taught as HTML without pretending it is XML

On Jul 23, 2007, at 12:04 PM, Robert Burns wrote:

>  I see that's what the DOM recommendation calls for, I just don't  
> understand what problem they we're trying to solve (the Opera  
> approach sounds like the best way to go; using the root element  
> namespace or perhaps the default namespace as the namespace when not  
> specified).

Actually, I think always making createElement() create elements in the  
HTML namespace is the way to go, and better than Opera's approach. The  
problem with Opera's approach is that cut & pasting snippets of markup  
that include script into a document in another language could result  
in surprising changes to the script behavior. Using the HTML namespace  
removes a problematic HTML/XHTML difference, without introducing the  
risk of inconsistency between different XML documents.

Regards,
Maciej