I have found the nesting behavior to be consistent between FF and Safari. So, some coordination may have been made.
We can say don’t do that but we have to plan for the error condition.
> On Jun 23, 2016, at 8:58 AM, Shane McCarron <shane@spec-ops.io> wrote:
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> On Thu, Jun 23, 2016 at 8:50 AM, Michael Cooper <cooper@w3.org <mailto:cooper@w3.org>> wrote:
> This thread was started on ARIA Admin, but it should be on the main WG list since it's a technical discussion. Attempting to move it with this message. Michael
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> On 23/06/2016 9:47 AM, Richard Schwerdtfeger wrote:
>> Nested links work in HTML browsers now. I don’t think they should be prohibited in SVG. The closer we align SVG and HTML the better it will be for developers.
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> No - they are expressly prohibited. I mean - a browser might support it, but that behavior is undefined and the content is invalid: https://www.w3.org/TR/html51/textlevel-semantics.html#elementdef-a <https://www.w3.org/TR/html51/textlevel-semantics.html#elementdef-a>--
> Shane McCarron
> Projects Manager, Spec-Ops