- From: Leif Halvard Silli <xn--mlform-iua@xn--mlform-iua.no>
- Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 02:49:05 +0100
- To: "Ennals, Robert" <robert.ennals@intel.com>
- Cc: HTMLwg <public-html@w3.org>
Ennals, Robert, Thu, 18 Mar 2010 22:17:07 +0000: > I'm thinking of writing up a *third* proposal for ISSUE-41. ... > Advantages: > * This is compatible with XML namespaces ... > Disadvantages: > > * This requires changing HTML5 parsing behavior. Names with a > prefix will now be split into prefix and localname, rather than the > ":" just being part of the name. > > * The same user agent will parse the same document > differently, depending on how recently they updated their namespace > mapping registry. However this only affects unprefixed tags that a > user agent otherwise didn't recognize - which can act as a hint that > the user agent should asynchronously check for an updated registry. Couldn't the workaround that Sam has used for SVG-in-IE (to sniff for the namespace URI) be used to deal with that issue? http://code.google.com/p/svgweb/issues/detail?id=199#c1 ... > Comments? > If it seems that people might like this then I'll write it up formally. +1 -- leif halvard silli
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