Re: What namespace features popular SVG tools really emit (ISSUE-37)

On Wed, 3 Sep 2008, Erik Dahlström wrote:
> 
> <!DOCTYPE svg PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD SVG 1.1//EN"
>     "http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/1.1/DTD/svg11.dtd">
> <svg viewBox="0 0 100 100">
>   <circle cx="50" cy="50" r="25" fill="blue"/>
> </svg>
> 
> Bad practise or not, this is still rendered as svg in Opera, and I 
> believe it would cause a sizable portion of content to fail to render if 
> it was changed to be stricter.

If this is the case, then, given that we don't want to encourage DOCTYPEs 
to be given in the middle of text/html content, this argues strongly for 
requiring that we support <svg> elements in text/html without explicit 
namespace declarations, something that the commented-out proposal does 
support, and something that the SVGWG's proposal does not.

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