- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2009 01:22:41 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc>
- Cc: Doug Schepers <schepers@w3.org>, public-html@w3.org, www-svg <www-svg@w3.org>
- Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.62.0903110120100.2690@hixie.dreamhostps.com>
On Tue, 10 Mar 2009, Jonas Sicking wrote: > > > > How about being able to right click on an SVG fragment in a text/html > > document (or even an XHTML document) and choosing “Save image as…” to > > save it out as XML? > > That sounds like a good idea. HTML5 already suggests this. (It's visible in the MathML section; it's also recommended for SVG in the commented-out SVG bit.) > > The commented-out proposal in HTML 5 at the moment does handle CDATA > > sections explicitly, and turns them into Text nodes in the DOM. This > > handling works for CDATA sections appearing anywhere in foreign > > content. I think this is useful, and not problematic. > > > > I agree about the consistency: I wonder if there would be any problems > > in allowing CDATA sections in HTML content? > > I haven't looked at how the commented out proposal currently handles SVG > <script> elements. However I do think they should be handled as similar > as possible, ideally identical. > > I would really like to explore allowing <![CDATA[]]> in HTML. Not sure > if we could allow it inside <script>s though, but it's something to look > into. My understanding is that Opera tried this and found it problematic. (There's a lot of content out there that says <![CDATA[ ... ]]>, and parsing it in the case of bad content that relies on it being ignored has a poor failure mode, with either content disappearing or markup appearing in the rendering.) -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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