Re: Short-term workarounds - - <source> in <video>

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>> You misunderstood slightly.  ^_^  Ian was referring to the fact 
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>> <source>, being a new void element, doesn't work properly in 
>> current
>> browsers (they treat it as as the start tag of an unknown element).
>> <command> is another new void element with similar problems.
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> So what's the workaround for <source>? XHTML syntax?
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> <source /> is valid HTML 5 and, when created via 
> document.createElement(), works perfectly in IE6: it isn't treated 
> as the start tag of a unknown element. And creating workarounds for 
> other legacy browsers than Internet Explorer, is not nearly as 
> common ...
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> <source></source> also works. So, to validate as XML and serve as 
> text/html would work ...
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> <source> has one "advantage" over <source/> and <source></source>: 
> Support has to be hard coded into the Web browser - it doesn't  rely 
> on the "distributed extensibility" of using non-void elements.
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> Perhaps that's the crux?

I see the same situation for <param> in an <object>.

These were treated sort of like <meta> with some situations where you 
don't use the / to signal a close tag?

I'm not sure about the difference between processing environments but 
I do see now that if I expected XML rules as I know them and are 
serious about it, then how can <source> without a closing signal work 
as expected in an xml parser?

>  Support has to be hard coded into the Web browser

I guess I can see this hard coded into a parser that does html served 
as text/htnl, but actually without further study, I don't know how to 
code it into an xml parser used if served as application/xhtml+xml. 
The <source> with no closing should keill the xml machine at some 
point? Now I see why I might always put those end / in there by 
default even though not actually needed in html processor with fixit 
steps. .

Also, is this about the same workaround for attributes that are not 
written as a name='value' pair but freestanding as a boolean?

Thanks and Best Regards,
Joe
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> leif halvard silli
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>> ~TJ

Received on Friday, 23 October 2009 22:20:50 UTC