- From: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@niksula.hut.fi>
- Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 20:04:43 +0300
- To: www-html@w3.org
On Tuesday, April 9, 2002, at 02:45 , Masayasu Ishikawa wrote: > See: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-validator/2002Apr/0019 | For the record, it was a deliberate decision to make the usemap | attribute to IDREF and XHTML-aware browsers like Mozilla and Netscape 6 | does (happen to) work with such image map used in XHTML documents | served as 'application/xhtml+xml', but nevertheless, an erratum | is planned for "5.8. Client-side Image Map Module" of Modularization | of XHTML to make it a URI reference. I think changing a deliberate decision as an erratum is unfair to the browsers that adhered to the original spec. (This is similar to the "no underscore in CSS class selectors" issue.) Is it necessary to be able to reference maps outside the document? If the referenced map is inside the document, IDREF seems like a more natural choice. Old browsers don't support application/xhtml+xml anyway, so the behavior of old browsers is a non-issue. (I am assuming that XHTML 1.1 shouldn't be served as text/html. At least so far, the RECs only indicate that XHTML 1.0 under certain conditions may be served as text/html. And endorsing XHTML 1.1 as text/html would promote the use tag soup parsers instead of promoting parsing with real XML parsers.) -- Henri Sivonen hsivonen@niksula.hut.fi http://www.hut.fi/u/hsivonen/
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