- From: Simon Pieters <simonp@opera.com>
- Date: Mon, 09 Mar 2009 08:01:36 +0100
- To: "Henri Sivonen" <hsivonen@iki.fi>, "Tim Berners-Lee" <timbl@w3.org>
- Cc: "HTMLWG WG" <public-html@w3.org>, "RDFa mailing list" <public-rdf-in-xhtml-tf@w3.org>, public-xhtml2@w3.org, "www-tag@w3.org WG" <www-tag@w3.org>
On Fri, 06 Mar 2009 13:20:13 +0100, Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi> wrote: > IIRC, we can't let the xmlns="..." attribute itself be assigned to the > "http://www.w3.org/2000/xmlns/" namespace in the DOM in text/html, > because there is a CSS selector trick for using the mapping difference > to detect whether a polyglot document got parsed as text/html or XML. No, it's mostly used as a hack to filter out IE6. > (Sorry, this statement is based on a vague recollection. I don't have a > proper reference for this.) http://www.communis.co.uk/dithered/css_filters/css_only/xmlns_attribute_selector.html http://www.google.com/codesearch?q=%5C%5Bxmlns%5C%5D+lang%3Acss -- Simon Pieters Opera Software
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