- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Thu, 10 May 2012 21:20:58 +0000 (UTC)
- To: "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Cc: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@annevk.nl>, Yehuda Katz <wycats@gmail.com>, Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc>, Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>, Rafael Weinstein <rafaelw@google.com>, Webapps WG <public-webapps@w3.org>
On Thu, 10 May 2012, Tab Atkins Jr. wrote: > > Still, requiring an explicit context declaration *at all* defeats most > of the purpose of the API. Again, if we don't auto-detect SVG (so that > "<rect>" just parses as HTMLUnknownElement by default), we haven't > gained much, since authors will *still* have to wrap their code in a > regex-based detector if they expect to ever use SVG. (An optional > context declaration that lets you determine which way the tagname > conflicts go is fine, of course.) Can you elaborate on the use case for parsing markup into a document fragment when you don't know where you'll be putting the document fragment or what kind of content is in it? -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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