On Mon, 25 Sep 2006, David Carlisle wrote: > > The syntax Paul was referring to here wasn't the <xml> convention, but > the ability in IE to have (explicitly prefixed) XML elements within an > HTML document with rendering controlled by an external component, but > _without_ any other flag at that point in the in the markup, such as > <xml> or <object> etc.
Oh, well, as noted earlier, the idea of namespace prefixes in HTML isn't one that I personally am particularly fond of. > I suspect part of the reason for "html5" is a feeling that that never > happened and isn't going to be mainstream any time soon, and that a > solution that directly addresses the fixed html vocabulary, with perhaps > two specific extensions such as svg and mathml will in practice cover > the vast majority of browser needs, and other vocabularies can be > transformed to html+.. before being served. I think that's pretty much exactly correct, yes. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.' _______________________________________________ dev-tech-layout mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-tech-layout
