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

From: Alexey Proskuryakov <ap@webkit.org>
Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2007 23:34:50 +0400
To: Simon Pieters <simonp@opera.com>, Robert Burns <rob@robburns.com>
CC: public-html <public-html@w3.org>
Message-ID: <C2CAEB9A.295DA%ap@webkit.org> 

on 23.07.2007 22:47, Simon Pieters at simonp@opera.com wrote:

> It won't. If you say e.g. document.createElement("input"), it will not be
> a form control in Safari (which is per spec).

  Actually, createElement() creates elements in XHTML namespace in current
WebKit nightlies, see <http://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8007>. This is
a fairly recent change, made for consistency between HTML and XHTML, and for
compatibility with Firefox.

- WBR, Alexey Proskuryakov.
Received on Monday, 23 July 2007 23:33:32 GMT

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