Re: agenda, 8 August 2013 SVG WG telcon

Cam, 

I understand. 

I am getting some concerns elsewhere in IBM from original SVG working 
group members about moving SVG attributes to lower case and it breaking 
older versions of SVG. How serious do and other members think this is 
given that a convergence with HTML should also mean adopting elements like 
the <a> element?

Rich

Rich Schwerdtfeger



From:   Cameron McCormack <cam@mcc.id.au>
To:     Richard Schwerdtfeger/Austin/IBM@IBMUS, 
Cc:     Dirk Schulze <dschulze@adobe.com>, Rik Cabanier 
<cabanier@adobe.com>, "public-svg-wg@w3.org" <public-svg-wg@w3.org>
Date:   08/08/2013 07:03 AM
Subject:        Re: agenda, 8 August 2013 SVG WG telcon



I would be surprised however if it were safe to make HTML elements live 
in no namespace rather than the HTML namespace.  (Otherwise I'm sure Ian 
would have done so.)

Richard Schwerdtfeger wrote:
> Yeah, they don't like namespaces.
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> On Aug 8, 2013, at 2:36 AM, "Dirk Schulze" <dschulze@adobe.com> wrote:
>
>  > On Aug 8, 2013, at 6:03 AM, Cameron McCormack <cam@mcc.id.au> wrote:
>  >
>  > > Rik Cabanier wrote:
>  > >> Very nice!
>  > >>
>  > >> At the same time, also very revolutionary.
>  > >> Do you think there will be objections from the HTML WGs since
> you're reusing some of their elements and introducing a new one?
>  > >
>  > > Yes, if we went ahead with this unilaterally. :-) If we wanted to 
move
>  > > ahead with a proposal like this we'd need to work in conjunction 
with
>  > > HTML folks.
>  > >
>  >
>  > Does point 6 require authors to use document.createElementNS on SVG
> elements? I think it would be great if we can "auto detect" the
> namespace. Obviously we have the problem with overlapping elements
> between HTML and SVG. I think the HTML editors vote for removing 
namespaces.
>  >
>  > Greetings,
>  > Dirk
>  >
>  > >
>  >
>  >
>

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