- From: Jeff Schiller <codedread@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2010 17:29:09 -0700
- To: Kevin Ar18 <kevinar18@hotmail.com>
- Cc: www-svg@w3.org
- Message-ID: <AANLkTikLVFqQSzoHpYa8osH+VZJg2QbriCUZriTn9Efc@mail.gmail.com>
Patience Kevin! :) You're making an assumption that all browsers currently support this. At the moment the following do (to my knowledge): - Firefox 4+ - Chrome 6+ - IE9+ Presumably Safari and Opera will soon follow suit. Someone feel free to correct me if I'm wrong. Jeff On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 5:21 PM, Kevin Ar18 <kevinar18@hotmail.com> wrote: > I've noticed that when inserting svg into an html 5 document !DOCTYPE > HTML that svg will not work. > Instead, I have to name the file file.xhtml and use an xml document with > an explicit xhtml namespace (for the html portions) and an explicit svg > namespace (for the svg portions). > > > The following does not work: > file.html > <!DOCTYPE HTML> > <html> > <body> > <svg> > <rect> > > > Now, I know that HTML does not follow strict xml rules, whereas SVG does. > However, the html5 specs say that svg is supposed to be a valid element even > in html documents. It seems a little bit of a shame to have to turn all > html documents into the more strict xml/xhtml conforming version just to use > SVG. > > It's probably just something that I don't understand... but I wanted to > check anyways. >
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