On Tue, 24 Jun 2014, Robert O'Callahan wrote: > > <!DOCTYPE HTML> > <svg> > <span id="s"></span> > <div id="i"></div> > the elements "s" and "i" are put in the HTML namespace already.
As siblings of the <svg> element, though, not descendants. This was required to get some level of compatibility with deployed content while still allowing <svg> in HTML. There was content out there that, for reasons that defeat me, had <svg> start tags (but not end tags). If we had not introduced this limited trap door out of the foreign lands (it's a hard-coded list of tag names that bail out in this way), it would have caused the pages to be blank from the <svg> start tag to the end. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
