On Mar 4, 2009, at 16:59, Henri Sivonen wrote:
I don't have an informed opinion yet whether enabling <svg> as root in text/html at all is a good idea. But if we do it, I see point in making it an error.
Oops. s/see point/see no point/ On Mar 4, 2009, at 21:19, Doug Schepers wrote:
Maybe we could come back to this after SVG-in-text/html has been deployed and used to solve real-world problems, so we can get developer and designer feedback about how something like Henri's proposal would affect them.
It's not a proposal--at least not at this time. There was IRC discussion on #whatwg about enabling <svg> as root[1]. This was sparked by a bullet point on the SVG WG's wiki[2]. I wrote down some implications from the parser point of view that I pondered immediately after the discussion[3][4].
I don't have an informed opinion yet on whether enabling <svg> as root in text/html is a good idea. Forming an informed opinion would require research about existing content and further discussion on what slippery slopes there'd be (such as the slippery slope of making <?xml encoding="..."?> set the encoding in text/html which could easily break existing content and which would be implementation-wise an annoying addition to the already too crazy encoding information situation with text/html).
[1] http://krijnhoetmer.nl/irc-logs/whatwg/20090304#l-310 [2] http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/WG/wiki/SVG_in_text-html_2009 [3] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-archive/2009Mar/0006.html [4] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-archive/2009Mar/0007.html -- Henri Sivonen [email protected] http://hsivonen.iki.fi/
