- From: David Carlisle <davidc@nag.co.uk>
- Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2011 10:21:22 +0100
- To: rleif@rleif.com
- Cc: public-html-xml@w3.org
On 21/10/2011 05:49, Robert Leif wrote: > Jirka, thank you. What tool and/or browser did you use to make an > HTML5 or XHTML5 web page to demonstrate this? We are now making some > progress. Robert, browsers, since they have supported xml at all, have always allowed you to send arbitrary XML when served with an xml or xhtml mime type. These elements are parsed into the DOM as you would expect, including namespace support, and may be styled with css and manipulated with javascript. Browsers do not use validating parsers at all, so the validity or otherwise of these elements is not really an issue (which is pretty much why your XSD-centric comments have had rather a disconnect with most discussions on this list). It is of course useful to have a schema or other validation tool that checks the documents being produced but that is irrelevant to the browser landscape and is the responsibility of the organisation specifying the additional xml markup. So for example, there have been schema available for xhtml+mathml+svg available since approximately forever, which allows content producers to produce documents valid to that extension, and any xml capable browser would correctly parse such documents (even back in 1998 when we started xml). The display of any such extension would depend on any css or javascript or applet or browser extension or any other suitable technology. None of this changes with (x)html(5) so it isn't really clear what more you expect the standards to specify, or the browsers to implement, in this area. David -- google plus: https:/profiles.google.com/d.p.carlisle ________________________________________________________________________ The Numerical Algorithms Group Ltd is a company registered in England and Wales with company number 1249803. The registered office is: Wilkinson House, Jordan Hill Road, Oxford OX2 8DR, United Kingdom. This e-mail has been scanned for all viruses by Star. The service is powered by MessageLabs. ________________________________________________________________________
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