Re: Script in SVG vs. HTML (was: Input on the agenda)

On Tue, 10 Mar 2009, Jonas Sicking wrote:
> >
> > How about being able to right click on an SVG fragment in a text/html 
> > document (or even an XHTML document) and choosing “Save image as…” to 
> > save it out as XML?
> 
> That sounds like a good idea.

HTML5 already suggests this. (It's visible in the MathML section; it's 
also recommended for SVG in the commented-out SVG bit.)


> > The commented-out proposal in HTML 5 at the moment does handle CDATA 
> > sections explicitly, and turns them into Text nodes in the DOM.  This 
> > handling works for CDATA sections appearing anywhere in foreign 
> > content. I think this is useful, and not problematic.
> >
> > I agree about the consistency: I wonder if there would be any problems 
> > in allowing CDATA sections in HTML content?
> 
> I haven't looked at how the commented out proposal currently handles SVG 
> <script> elements. However I do think they should be handled as similar 
> as possible, ideally identical.
> 
> I would really like to explore allowing <![CDATA[]]> in HTML. Not sure 
> if we could allow it inside <script>s though, but it's something to look 
> into.

My understanding is that Opera tried this and found it problematic. 
(There's a lot of content out there that says <![CDATA[ ... ]]>, and 
parsing it in the case of bad content that relies on it being ignored has 
a poor failure mode, with either content disappearing or markup appearing 
in the rendering.)

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