dropping contentStyleType and contentScriptType

In SVG 1.1, the contentStyleType="" attribute can be placed on an <svg> 
element to indicate the styling language in use in any style="" 
attributes in that subtree.  The spec says:

   Since the only widely deployed language used for inline styling (in
   style elements and style attributes) is CSS, and since that is
   already the default language if contentStyleType is omitted, in
   practice contentStyleType is not well supported in user agents. XSL
   style sheets are typically external. If a new style sheet language
   becomes popular, it might not use style attributes and could easily
   declare which language is in use with the type attribute on the style
   element.

   The use of contentStyleType is therefore deprecated; new content
   should not use it. Future versions of the SVG specification may
   remove contentStyleType.

I propose we do that now.

Similarly you can place contentScriptType="" on <svg> to indicate the 
scripting language in any event handler attributes.  There's no wording 
currently about dropping this attribute, but I have never seen anyone 
use it to specify anything other than JavaScript, and HTML also does not 
support a feature like this.  I propose we drop it too, and assume 
JavaScript.

Received on Saturday, 19 May 2012 03:00:53 UTC