Re: Minutes of Nov 19 TAG Telcon

>    HT: If HTML WG would take on updating App C and make it as good as
>    possible that would be great!

http://krijnhoetmer.nl/irc-logs/whatwg/20090326#l-475

>    HT: What abt HTML within SVG?
> 
>    DC: Have not seen a design for that

When you have SVG in text/html, you can use HTML inside foreignObject. It is parsed like HTML in text/html in general.

If you want to use HTML in image/svg+xml, you need to use the XML serialization of HTML inside foreignObject.

(You can't have {http://www.w3.org/2000/svg}svg as the root element in text/html. The parsing algorithm always generates an {http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml}html root element. See the thread starting at http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-archive/2009Mar/0006.html )

>    DC: They are not active.
>    ... HTML5 folks have a design on the table.
> 
>    HT: Does proposal say much abt semantics
> 
>    DC: Talks mainly abt parsing
> 
>    HT: Does not sound good
> 
>    DC: I pointed this out when I was chair

If you conclude that what HTML5 says about SVG in text/html is insufficient, logically you must also be concluding that "just use Namespaces" is an insufficient integration story for XHTML and SVG (and, hence, for XML vocabularies in the general case). ;-)

Above the parsing layer, all integration issues SVG in text/html has are issues shared with SVG in application/xhtml+xml.

>    <DanC> but nothing about event-bubbling and screen arbitration
>    between HTML and SVG

"Screen arbitration" belongs in the CSS WG, I think. (I'd expect events to bubble across namespace boundaries.)

>    <ht> "When the SVG foreignObject element contains elements from the
>    HTML namespace, such elements"
> 
>    DC: how does it get in the HTML namespace. This is not a complete
>    proposal.

That's up to the XML Processor (XML case), the HTML parsing algorithm (the text/html case) or DOM APIs (the scripted case).

>    DanC: Manu's proposal included a version attribute

Manu removed the version attribute from his draft after discussion on public-html.

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