Re: What's the problem? "Reuse of 1998 XHTML namespace is potentially misleading/wrong"

On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 3:56 PM, Lachlan Hunt <lachlan.hunt@lachy.id.au> wrote:
> * Renaming <script> to <handler>
>  - Unnecessarily renaming, effectively introduces a second element for
>    exactly the same purpose.

This is something i'd be very concerned about. I don't care that much
about the fact that there would be two elements with exactly, or
almost, the same functionality. The only downside with that would be a
little implementation hassle and maybe some author confusion.

The much bigger problem is a security concern. There are loads of
sites out there that filter out <script> elements from things like
blog comments and forum postings to avoid XSS issues. It would be a
big problem if this could be worked around by attackers by simply
using <handler> instead.

/ Jonas