a web site that is incompatible with HTML5 namespace requirements for HTML serialization from Maciej Stachowiak on 2007-08-13 (public-html@w3.org from August 2007)

From: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>
Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2007 11:58:01 -0700
To: public-html WG <public-html@w3.org>
Message-Id: <35CC25AB-D89A-4BC4-A2B5-94E512341C9F@apple.com>

http://www.ar.jal.com/

This site tests document.documentElement.namespaceURI. If it gets a  
non-null value, it goes down an untested and broken code path. So far  
Safari is the only browser to put HTML elements in the HTML  
serialization in the XHTML namespace instead of the null namespace, so  
we break on this site.

Having HTML elements in the XHTML namespace is probably still worth  
it, but if many more compatibility problems with this change are  
found, we may have to reconsider it.

Regards,
Maciej

Received on Monday, 13 August 2007 19:02:31 UTC