- From: Philip Taylor <philip@zaynar.demon.co.uk>
- Date: Sat, 04 Aug 2007 17:27:21 +0100
- To: public-html@w3.org
Philip Taylor wrote: > IE5+ also does namespaced tags outside of <xml>, which are perhaps > interesting - http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms535160.aspx and > http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms531076.aspx give some > incomplete and incorrect information. Rough experimentation suggests the > following: > > [...] Oh, sorry, it turns out that wasn't actually correct, because the live DOM viewer is misleading - or at least it is correct about what happens when you create HTML via document.write(), but is incorrect when you're loading an actual HTML file (in which case it doesn't recognise <x:y> unless you have <html xmlns:x> or <?xml:namespace prefix=x>). So, IE's behaviour is somewhat more complex and less sane that I thought. -- Philip Taylor philip@zaynar.demon.co.uk
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