- From: James Craig <jcraig@apple.com>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2016 18:42:16 -0800
- To: Joseph Scheuhammer <clown@alum.mit.edu>
- Cc: Richard Schwerdtfeger <schwer@us.ibm.com>, Accessible Rich Internet Applications Working Group <public-aria@w3.org>
> On Jan 21, 2016, at 1:47 PM, Joseph Scheuhammer <clown@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
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>> An image with external src SVG does have children. If your browser does not support them, that should be filed as a browser bug. See correct behavior in Safari/WebKit.
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> There may be confusion here about what "children" means here. During the meeting, Fred said that an <img src="svg"> does not produce DOM children of the <img> element.
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> To confirm, I tried the following with FF, Safari, and Chrome. and their respective DOM inspector tools. There is an <img> element in the DOM for each of the svg palm trees, but those <img> elements do not have DOM children.
That's just a lacking feature in the dev tools. Here's the WebKit Inspector enhancement request.
https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=121319
> http://tecfa.unige.ch/guides/svg/ex/html5/inkscape-import/html5-import-with-img.html
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> Also, the HTML spec for the <img> elements states that it has an empty content model [1], making <img> a leaf node.
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> [1] https://www.w3.org/html/wg/drafts/html/master/semantics.html#the-img-element
I believe the HTML spec should be updated to call some images a "nested browsing context" like an iframe.
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> ;;;;joseph.
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Received on Friday, 22 January 2016 02:42:47 UTC