- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2006 23:19:41 +0000 (UTC)
- To: David Carlisle <davidc@nag.co.uk>
- Cc: www-math@w3.org, dev-tech-mathml@lists.mozilla.org
On Tue, 3 Oct 2006, David Carlisle wrote: > > > > What are the rules for handling non-well-formed content? > > not sure what the "rules" are (as in whether they are published > anywhere), perhaps someone from DS (or Microsoft for that matter) could > give more information, but empirically what I think happens is that if > you register the namespce on m: with a component then any top level > element (<m:math>..</m:math> in our case) gets handed over to the > component, well formed or not, and then it's up to the component what it > does with it. Mathplayer for example usually tries to make something > out of incorrect (including non well formed) content, but always > renders it in a red error box. So basically, it's the same as tag soup. I don't really see an advantage to going down that route (with its complexities like namespace prefixes, etc) -- if anything, the lack of success of IE's extension mechanism should be taken as a sign that this is not the path to follow. (Compare this to, e.g., <marquee>, which was so widely used that other browsers were forced to support it.) -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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