Re: [whatwg] The problems with namespaces in text/html (Was: MathML-in-HTML5)

On Sat, 04 Nov 2006 19:11:00 +0100, Elliotte Harold  
<elharo@metalab.unc.edu> wrote:
> Yes, that's accurate; but there is new opportunity here. CSS, XSLT, and  
> JavaScript present the option to specify styling for unknown elements,  
> in the same or different namespaces.
>
> Must-ignore could become "Must-ignore unless the stylesheet says not  
> to". I'm not sure if this is really a good idea or not, but I for one  
> would find it very useful and make heavy use of it.

This is already how things work. It's just that parsing of unknown  
elements works differently accross browsers.


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