On Wed, Jan 23, 2019 at 11:23 AM Cameron McCormack <c...@mcc.id.au> wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 10, 2019, at 12:38 AM, Henri Sivonen wrote: > > A (non-changed) part of the charter says under SVG2: "This > > specification updates SVG 1.1 to include HTML5-compatible parsing". Is > > that in reference to > > https://svgwg.org/svg2-draft/single-page.html#embedded-HTMLElements or > > something else? I.e. does it mean the SVG WG wants to change the HTML > > parsing algorithm to put <video> and <audio> with > > non-integration-point SVG parent into the HTML namespace in the HTML > > parser? > > I see the note in that section you link that says: > > > Currently, within an SVG subtree, these tagnames are not recognized by the > > HTML parser to > > be HTML-namespaced elements, although this may change in the future. > > Therefore, in order > > to include these elements within SVG, one of the following must be used: > > ... > > The "this may change in the future" part sounds like someone thought that it > might be the case in the future. Saying that SVG 2 "includes > HTML5-compatible parsing" is a bit odd, though, since that behavior is > defined in the HTML spec. In any case, given the group's intended focus on > stabilizing and documenting what is currently implemented and interoperable, > I doubt that making such a change would be in scope.
Thanks. I think it would be prudent for Mozilla to request that " updates SVG 1.1 to include HTML5-compatible parsing," be struck from the charter, so that changes to the HTML parsing algorithm can't be justified using an argument from a charter that we approved. -- Henri Sivonen hsivo...@mozilla.com _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
