- From: Leif Halvard Silli <xn--mlform-iua@xn--mlform-iua.no>
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 22:32:11 +0100
- To: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Cc: "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com>, Kornel <kornel@geekhood.net>, Shelley Powers <shelley.just@gmail.com>, public-html@w3.org
Julian Reschke, Mon, 25 Jan 2010 21:28:56 +0100: > 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. +1 Sounds very convincing to me. We don't need to invent @srcdoc just because we can. -- leif halvard silli
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