- From: Leif Halvard Silli <xn--mlform-iua@xn--mlform-iua.no>
- Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 17:38:06 +0100
- To: Kornel Lesiński <kornel@geekhood.net>
- Cc: public-html@w3.org
Kornel Lesiński, Wed, 17 Feb 2010 15:48:47 +0000: > On 17 Feb 2010, at 14:34, Leif Halvard Silli wrote: > >> Kornel Lesiński, Wed, 17 Feb 2010 14:03:05 +0000: >>>>> It also doesn't make sense to claim that a page that uses the >>>>> internal subset is "valid HTML4", since you could inject pretty much >>>>> anything via the internal subset. >>>> >>>> Again a theoretical point. >>> >>> How is internal subset in text/html anything but theoretical? >>> >>> It doesn't work in any browser, and AFAIK it never did. >> >> It works fine in any browser and AFAIK it always did: >> >> http://www.målform.no/html4-or-html5/index > > By "work" I mean doing what internal subset was defined to do in > SGML, rather than being misinterpreted or completely ignored at best. So you insist on making points about SGML. > In text/html parsed by browsers you can't change HTML content model > (e.g. you can't create new empty element), you can't define new > entities, fixed attributes won't be added to DOM. > > i.e. in text/html you are unable to use internal subset for its > purpose. At best you can use it to entertain users validating your > page in validators that are removed from reality. Validation is very important. By adding a internal subset, I can make the validation _more_ up to reality. -- leif halvard silli
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