- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Wed, 14 May 2008 07:53:44 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Philip Taylor <pjt47@cam.ac.uk>, Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>, Sam Ruby <rubys@us.ibm.com>
- Cc: HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>
On Fri, 21 Dec 2007, Philip Taylor wrote: > > http://quickstarts.asp.net/Futures/ajax/doc/components.aspx uses > <script type="text/xml-script"> > for embedding XML which gets interpreted by some other JavaScript code. No UA > could ever process that XML natively like a proper script, since it would > conflict with the JS's handling of the XML. > > [...] > > In the absence of a better solution, and in the interest of paving the cowpath > (i.e. adopting people's current solution to the problem), <script> should be > accepted for this use Done. > "In this case, the type attribute must be present and set to a MIME type > for which user agents probably won't ever implement support." I've no idea how to test for that, or how to specify it. > "XHTML documents should not use the script element in this way, as > techniques such as namespaces and CDATA sections allow better > solutions." I haven't included this. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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