Re: More on SVG within HTML pages from Shelley Powers on 2009-09-08 (public-html@w3.org from September 2009)

From: Shelley Powers <shelleyp@burningbird.net>
Date: Tue, 08 Sep 2009 09:05:35 -0500
To: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
CC: Simon Pieters <simonp@opera.com>, public-html@w3.org
Message-ID: <4AA664AF.2050704@burningbird.net>

Henri Sivonen wrote:
> On Sep 8, 2009, at 16:14, Shelley Powers wrote:
>
>> Bits left out of the SVG file will also make themselves known, very 
>> quickly.
>
>
> There's existing content out there that contain inexplicably 
> copy-pasted partial SVG in text/html. Presumably this is pure cargo 
> cult and the authors don't even expect vector graphics to appear. 
> However, if browsers wreck the rest of those pages, the user 
> perception would be that the new browser doesn't work.
>
> (URLs in Hixie's posts to this list.)
>
Besides, SVG is in the HTML5 specification. What we're discussing right 
now, is how to deal with the namespaced elements that are validly in the 
SVG.

We don't want to tread over old ground.

Shelley

Received on Tuesday, 8 September 2009 14:06:29 UTC