- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Thu, 25 Dec 2008 11:15:18 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Simon Pieters <simonp@opera.com>
- Cc: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>, HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>
On Thu, 11 Dec 2008, Simon Pieters wrote: > > In http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2007Oct/0161.html I > speculated (no pun intended) about having the above-mentioned elements > keep their (R)CDATAness even in foreign content, and not supporting > <![CDATA[ at all. However, I guess the self-closing flag would still be > a problem (<svg> ... <style/> ...)? Perhaps the self-closing flag > shouldn't work on (R)CDATA elements in foreign content? > > Going with this makes SVG less copy-pastable into HTML, which is not > good. OTOH, when it would break, it means authors have to fix it up, and > then it would break less in legacy UAs (e.g. replace <script .../> with > <script ...></script>). I'd be fine with doing this, but I assume that this would be far too far from the SVGWG's goals for it to be acceptable to them. (After all, they haven't agreed even with the current commented-out proposal.) > Going with this also means that <textArea> in SVG can't contain elements > declaratively, which is not good. Well it's not clear <textArea> is a particularly good feature anyway. :-) -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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