- From: Lachlan Hunt <lachlan.hunt@lachy.id.au>
- Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2006 10:44:33 +1000
- To: Mike Housman <housmanbox@hotmail.com>
- CC: www-html-editor@w3.org, www-html@w3.org
Mike Housman wrote: > 1. Please allow MIME type text/xml+xhtml in the XHTML 2.0 specification. > This presents less security risk than MIME type application/xml+xhtml. Firstly, neither of those MIME types exist, although I believe you are referring to application/xhtml+xml. Secondly, what security risks? Thirdly, you should read why text/xml and other text/*+xml MIME types are not recommended [1]. > 2. Please allow IFRAME in the XHTML 2.0 specification. Microsoft > Internet Explorer treats the OBJECT tag as ActiveX which is disabled by > me and many other web users for security reasons, and thus many webpages > do not display properly. Many webmasters would prefer IFRAME in XHTML > 2.0 compliant webpages. The behaviour of a broken and insecure browser is no reason alter the spec, especially when many other browsers don't suffer from the same problems. And besides, <object> in XHTML 2 is in a different namespace from XHTML 1.x, and so no browser supports it at all. > 3. Please allow the SRC attribute for the DIV element in the XHTML 2.0 > specification. This would enable the use of DIV as an alternative to the > IFRAME and OBJECT elements. The src attribute applies to almost every element in XHTML 2, but what difference does it make by using <div> instead of <object>? > 4. Please create a new comment element with start tag <!> and end tag > </!> to replace [or be an alternate to] the current comment syntax: <!-- > comment -->. Why? The comment syntax is defined by the XML recommendation and <!> would be illegal in XML since "!" is not a valid name [2] [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/webarch/#xml-media-types [2] http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/#NT-Name -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au/
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