On Wed, 27 Sep 2006, Roger B. Sidje wrote: > On 27/09/2006 11:23 AM, Ian Hickson wrote: > > > > The problem with adding entities is that a LOT of people do things > > like > > > > href="/u?aa=foo&ab=foo&ac=foo&ad=foo" > > > > ...which today works, but would break if MathML entities were > > introduced (since &ac is a MathML entity). > > That list is so big that trying to hand-pick some and leaving some out > would need another committee...
Not really... I say we just add ApplyFunction, InvisibleComma, and InvisibleTimes (but not their short aliases). > > > Is is okay to assume HTML5 (with its <!DOCTYPE html>) as supporting > > > all W3C entities _by default_? > > > > Don't do anything based on the DOCTYPE. HTML5 is anything sent as > > text/html. > > I thought the DOCTYPE was trustworthy -- based on this excerpt from the > HTML5 spec: > > "HTML documents that use the new features described in this > specification must start with the string <!DOCTYPE html> and, if they > are served over the wire (e.g. by HTTP) must be labelled with the > text/html MIME type." That's an authoring conformance requirement, and has no bearing on implementations. > BTW, for my own information, do you intent HTML5 to be transitional, > almost-standards, or strict? HTML5 documents starting with <!DOCTYPE HTML> must be in standards mode. Documents with other DOCTYPEs or no DOCTYPE at all may be in another mode, as already described in the spec. In due course I may specify quirks mode and then there'll just be the spec, and no other modes. > If it is HTML5 (or XHTML5) served as text/html but put in the XHTML > namespace at some later stage (as the HTML5 implies), it better be > strict, no? And that would be driven by the DOCTYPE detection code. > Catch my drift? Or is tag soup going to be in the XHTML namespace? Not sure what you mean my that. All HTML DOM nodes are (per HTML5) in the XHTML namespace, irrespective of the standards/quirks thing. > If it is strict then maybe entities could be required to have a > semi-colon -- which will then avoid the ambiguities you mentioned above. That would break back-compat. -- 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
