- From: Erik Dahlström <ed@opera.com>
- Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 10:47:28 +0100
- To: "Ian Hickson" <ian@hixie.ch>, "Doug Schepers" <schepers@w3.org>
- Cc: public-html@w3.org, www-svg <www-svg@w3.org>
On Tue, 24 Mar 2009 05:58:21 +0100, Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> wrote: > On Tue, 24 Mar 2009, Doug Schepers wrote: >> Ian Hickson wrote (on 3/23/09 11:16 PM): >> > >> > > This issue seems to come down to a matter of preference. The SVG WG >> > > sees disadvantages in such whitelisting, and doesn't see value in >> > > it. Modulo some technical reason, we still oppose the inclusion of >> > > whitelists, and ask instead that wording similar to what we've >> > > proposed be used to solve the issue. [1][2] >> > > >> > > [1] http://dev.w3.org/SVG/proposals/svg-html/html5-mod.html#svg-attribute-name >> > > [2] http://dev.w3.org/SVG/proposals/svg-html/html5-mod.html#svg-element-name >> > >> > Woah, how are we supposed to reason about what the parser requires if >> > we don't actually list the tags explicitly? It seems dangerous to not >> > make the list explicit. I'd be far more concerned about us >> > accidentally introducing tags that we didn't intend to introduce if we >> > didn't have to make sure we kept a list up to date. >> > >> > This also moves the burden of listing the tag names from us to the >> > implementors, which would inevitably be a source of bugs. >> >> Who said it shouldn't be an explicit list? > > Isn't that the proposal? There is a part that gives the UA the option of doing case fixups for elements in future SVG specifications, that list isn't explicit. I agree that providing links to the Element and Attribute appendices is a useful addition, and I've updated the proposal accordingly[1]. Do note that the SVG 1.1 attribute table has an errata item[2] associated with it. Cheers /Erik [1] http://dev.w3.org/SVG/proposals/svg-html/html5-mod.html [2] http://dev.w3.org/SVG/profiles/1.1F2/errata/errata.xml#attribute-index -- Erik Dahlstrom, Core Technology Developer, Opera Software Co-Chair, W3C SVG Working Group Personal blog: http://my.opera.com/macdev_ed
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