- From: Ben Boyle <benjamins.boyle@gmail.com>
- Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2008 03:23:51 +1000
- To: "Doug Schepers" <schepers@w3.org>
- Cc: "Henri Sivonen" <hsivonen@iki.fi>, "HTMLWG Tracking WG" <public-html@w3.org>
People also expect authoring practices they learn to be transferrable. On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 3:10 AM, Doug Schepers <schepers@w3.org> wrote: > > Hi, Henri- > > Henri Sivonen wrote (on 3/15/08 1:03 PM): > > > > >> Because it preserves compatibility with all other SVG content and UAs, > >> thus capitalizing on the network effect. > > > > That's a fallacy. As I have pointed out before, *no* SVG-in-text/html > > scheme can capitalize on compatibility with deployed SVG-as-XML clients, > > because the clients trip up on the text/html Content-Type or at least > > the HTML wrapped around the SVG image. > > No, that's the fallacy. > > As has been pointed out numerous times, just because a piece of content > starts in an HTML file doesn't guarantee it's going to stay there. It > could very well be copy-pasted into a standalone file, with absolutely > no HTML in it, and be expected to work in an existing SVG UA. > > > > Regards- > -Doug Schepers > W3C Team Contact, SVG, CDF, and WebAPI > >
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