- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 21:28:56 +0100
- To: "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- CC: Leif Halvard Silli <xn--mlform-iua@xn--mlform-iua.no>, Kornel <kornel@geekhood.net>, Shelley Powers <shelley.just@gmail.com>, public-html@w3.org
Tab Atkins Jr. wrote: > ... > I'm not sure how markup in attributes is any worse than a data url, > which contains precisely the same data and is in an attribute. The > only difference is the name of the attribute and the escaping > requirements. (There are a few practical differences between how data > urls currently work and how @srcdoc works that can be significant, but > they're not relevant to this particular concern of yours.) > ... Well, data URIs are already there, while srcdoc would be a new attribute, and we've been told by the editor that each new attribute in HTML costs around 1 billion dollars in specifying/implementing/deploying/documenting/teaching. Furthermore, the data: URI scheme allows you to specify the mime type, so the HTML vs XHTML question is already answered. Best regards, Julian
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