- From: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
- Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2009 09:12:23 -0000
- To: "Jonas Sicking" <jonas@sicking.cc>, "Ian Hickson" <ian@hixie.ch>
- Cc: "Doug Schepers" <schepers@w3.org>, public-html@w3.org, www-svg <www-svg@w3.org>
On Wed, 11 Mar 2009 09:07:09 -0000, Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 4:48 PM, Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> wrote: >> The tags listed were found to be tags that currently exist in Web >> content that has <svg> start tags. (It turns out there's quite a few >> pages out >> there that have <svg> tags in them, for no apparent reason. The goal >> with this list is to avoid breaking these pages too much.) > > What quantity of content are we talking about here. From what I > understand this list is in part based on experience from Opera in > experiments with deploying SVG support in text/html, is this correct? Nope, the list came from a non-scientific study at Google. > With developing Firefox I have found that it is a lot easier to > "break" pages if there is a spec we can point at showing that what we > are doing is according to spec. Though this applies mostly to newly > created pages that are still being maintained. *possibly* this is the > case with pages that include random <svg> tags. > > So in other words, I think it would be worth trying to fight with a > few developers whos pages we break, if we can significantly improve > the spec by making it cleaner. I sort of agree, though some pages (can't find the pointers right now) would break quite badly if we did this. -- Anne van Kesteren http://annevankesteren.nl/
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