Re: SVG in text/html

On Apr 15, 2008, at 4:06 AM, Andrew Emmons wrote:

> Hello HTML WG,
>
> While it is encouraging that SVG in text/html is being discussed[1],  
> we feel that the proposal tries to change the SVG syntax in a way  
> that is incompatible with all implementations to date.  We feel that  
> such change is outside of the HTML Working Group's charter and  
> request that it be removed from the text/html specification pending  
> further research into proposed solutions, in order to avoid  
> premature implementation.

As an SVG and HTML implementor, I would find any reasonable choice for  
SVG in text/html about equally burdensome. Any approach by necessity  
would be "incompatible with all implementations to date", since no  
implementation supports SVG in text/html.

>
> We are happy to make rapid progress on allowing SVG in text/html  
> while maximizing compatibility with the wide range of deployed SVG  
> authoring tools and renderers.

Authoring tools would presumably also need changes to support any kind  
of content in text/html. (If the idea is that authors would manually  
extract SVG snippets, I believe the spec also supports the cut & paste  
use case, but will not prevent the author from making the SVG content  
unusable to XML tools if edited after insertion into text/html  
content. To support safety in the latter case, the author would have  
to use an HTML5 parser to extract inline SVG from HTML.)

Regards,
Maciej