- From: Smylers <Smylers@stripey.com>
- Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2009 17:22:36 +0000
- To: HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>
Boris Zbarsky writes: > Robert J Burns wrote: > > > if a DOM/Script author simply lets the UA handle things for them, > > then the scripting is not complicated at all. The browser will > > determine the proper handling of the element (and 'img' element or > > any other element). > > So what you're saying is that the right way to handle <img> with > script for document authors is to create documents that they know are > non-conformant in all languages involved (and which might not even be > serializable if the language happens to be HTML5, not XHTML5 or > XHTML2), and then to assume that UA error handling will "do the right > thing"? I thought that Rob was actually pointing out that browsers can distinguish <img> in a valid XHTML 5 document from <img> in a valid XHTML 2 document by whether there is an alt attribute or child text -- and therefore that authors could write either, and browsers could just work out what's what and behave accordingly. > That seems like a highly undesirable situation to me, honestly. Yeah. Smylers
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