[Bug 10901] Use same parsing for HTML <script> and SVG <script>

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=10901

Ian 'Hixie' Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|NEW                         |ASSIGNED
                 CC|                            |adrianba@microsoft.com,
                   |                            |annevk@opera.com,
                   |                            |eric@webkit.org,
                   |                            |excors@gmail.com,
                   |                            |franko@microsoft.com,
                   |                            |hsivonen@iki.fi,
                   |                            |ian@hixie.ch,
                   |                            |w3c@adambarth.com,
                   |                            |zcorpan@hotmail.com

--- Comment #1 from Ian 'Hixie' Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> 2010-09-30 23:40:09 UTC ---
Someone asked what the impact on this on SVG might be so I commented on that
topic here:
   http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-svg/2010Sep/0146.html

As far as the proposal goes I don't really have any objections, but it
shouldn't be undertaken lightly. I don't think the differences between what we
have now and the above proposal are as minor as is suggested. For example,
doing this would introduce re-entrant document.write() to SVG content. There's
also the risk that the parsing changes aren't compatible with what the Web
needs of HTML parsers for HTML <script>. On top of that, it makes the
conformance requirements for what HTML <script>s can contain even more
complicated, an impressive feat given the current inanely complicated BNF we
have to describe what is allowed and what is not.

Which is to say, if we do this I think we should get explicit buy-in from
people who have already implemented the parser (Adam/Eric, Henri), and from
people writing validators (Henri/Mike). Input from people at Opera, from the
Safari team, the IE team, and of course from the SVG community would be
valuable also. I've tried cc'ing people I know who have Bugzilla accounts and
might have a stake in this.

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Received on Thursday, 30 September 2010 23:40:12 UTC