- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 19:43:47 +0000 (UTC)
- To: James Graham <jgraham@opera.com>
- Cc: HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>
On Thu, 15 Jan 2009, James Graham wrote: > > The requirement that UAs place all HTML elements in the HTML namespace > does not make sense for all classes of UA. For html5lib I plan to make > it optional whether HTML elements are assigned to the HTML namespace so > that people using APIs that have a significant namespace tax do not have > to pay that tax in the common case. This wouldn't be non-conforming, since you don't expose a (W3C) DOM. The requirement is a black-box requirement that is only testable if the UA also supports Selectors (with namespaces), XPath, W3C DOM scripting, or such like. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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