- From: Simon Pieters <simonp@opera.com>
- Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2009 09:28:51 +0100
- To: "Ian Hickson" <ian@hixie.ch>, "Jonas Sicking" <jonas@sicking.cc>
- Cc: "Doug Schepers" <schepers@w3.org>, public-html@w3.org, www-svg <www-svg@w3.org>
On Wed, 11 Mar 2009 02:22:41 +0100, Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> wrote: >> 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.) Actually we have supported CDATA sections in HTML for quite some time and I haven't seen many bugs about it. It would be useful to research text/html content that contains "<![CDATA[", though. I'll also note that if SVG <script> becomes CDATA, the need for supporting CDATA sections is reduced. -- Simon Pieters Opera Software
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