- From: Timur Mehrvarz <timur.mehrvarz@web.de>
- Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2008 20:35:21 +0100
- To: public-cdf@w3.org
- Cc: Eric Seidel <eric@webkit.org>
I'm forwarding this message I received from Eric Seidel a few days back. Their decision makes me a uncomfortable. People can use xml:id in their XHTML+SVG content and be compliant with one browser, currently. Or they can use id without xml: and be compliant with 3 browsers. But not with the SVG Tiny 1.2 spec. Or am I missing something? Timur On 28.12.2007, at 07:45, Eric Seidel wrote: > After some discussion in #webkit, we've decided against implementing > xml:id: > > http://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16505 > > xml:id has proven pretty irrelevant on the web so far (I can't think > of a single page which actually uses it). It provides little-to-no > benefit over "id" as specified by SVG and HTML and just adds more > unnecessary complexity to WebKit. > > I would recommend that WICD consider removing xml:id from their list > of requirements ... >> > > Certainly if there was a major shift in the web and real websites > actually started to use xml:id, or there was a demonstrable benefit > to its support in WebKit, we'd reconsider. > > -eric
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