- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2008 22:41:56 +0200
- To: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- CC: Erik Dahlström <ed@opera.com>, Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>, HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>, www-svg <www-svg@w3.org>
Ian Hickson wrote: > On Wed, 3 Sep 2008, Erik Dahlström wrote: >> <!DOCTYPE svg PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD SVG 1.1//EN" >> "http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/1.1/DTD/svg11.dtd"> >> <svg viewBox="0 0 100 100"> >> <circle cx="50" cy="50" r="25" fill="blue"/> >> </svg> >> >> Bad practise or not, this is still rendered as svg in Opera, and I >> believe it would cause a sizable portion of content to fail to render if >> it was changed to be stricter. > > If this is the case, then, given that we don't want to encourage DOCTYPEs > to be given in the middle of text/html content, this argues strongly for > requiring that we support <svg> elements in text/html without explicit > namespace declarations, something that the commented-out proposal does > support, and something that the SVGWG's proposal does not. I just tested an SVG after removing the default namespace declaration, and none of FF, Safari, Opera or Chrome recognized it as SVG anymore. Good. BR, Julian
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