- From: Simon Pieters <simonp@opera.com>
- Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2016 15:30:06 +0200
- To: public-html@w3.org, "Dr. Olaf Hoffmann" <Dr.O.Hoffmann@gmx.de>
On Fri, 17 Jun 2016 18:05:51 +0200, Dr. Olaf Hoffmann <Dr.O.Hoffmann@gmx.de> wrote: > Jukka K. Korpela: >> The two elements are mentioned as obsolete as >> https://www.w3.org/TR/html5/obsolete.html#non-conforming-features > > Oh I see, in 11.2 Non-conforming features, but not in the element index > https://www.w3.org/TR/html5/index.html#elements-1 > This is confusing, just because it is not mentioned in this CSS > fragment, that > it cares about non conforming features, one should not use anymore. > > Even more confusing: > The CSS fragment notes > @namespace url(http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml); > > But obviously, these elements are not even defined in the legacy module > of XHTML 1.1 > https://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml-modularization/abstract_modules.html#s_legacymodule > > Doesn't this mean, that they are not in the XHTML namespace, > therefore the rule does not apply? > If they only appear within HTML2, they obviously belong not to the XHTML > namespace, if HTML5 does not add them. All elements (ignoring <math> and <svg> and their descendants) are put in the XHTML namespace by the HTML parser. HTH, -- Simon Pieters Opera Software
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