Script Element Processing (Was: [SVGMobile12] Question on details of when <script> elements execute)

Hi, Ian-

Thanks for your quick response.

Ian Hickson wrote:
| 
| On Fri, 11 Aug 2006, Doug Schepers wrote:
| > 
| > We did try very hard to make this processing as straightforward and 
| > unsurprising as possible, including testing on existing 
| HTML UAs.  If 
| > anyone else (Hixie springs to mind) does have a more 
| complete processing 
| > model or exhaustive test results about existing script processing 
| > models, we would be happy to look at integration of our efforts.  I 
| > would personally like to see a single script processing 
| model specified 
| > for all W3C technologies, insofar as it is possible.
| 
| I'm currently writing an exhaustive specification of how this 
| should work for HTML5, but I don't have an ETA on 
| completion. Also, it will go into far more detail than 
| the SVG spec generally goes, so it would probably 
| be quite difficult to integrate neatly.

I'm assuming that the plan is for it to be compatible with existing specs
and implementations?  That would be great.  I think it's entirely
appropriate for a dedicated spec on something like script element processing
to go into much more detail than a spec like SVG, which is of course focused
on its own subject matter.  Nevertheless, if you have any particular points
that SVG should pick up on, please let us know.

Thanks for all your hard work in unifying behavior across UAs.  Such
intensive testing is often a thankless task, but it's very worthwhile.

Regards-
Doug

Received on Friday, 11 August 2006 18:37:02 UTC