On Sun, Aug 5, 2012 at 7:00 AM, Henri Sivonen <hsivo...@iki.fi> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 11:35 PM, Adam Barth <w...@adambarth.com> wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 11:29 AM, Adam Klein <ad...@chromium.org> wrote: > >> > >> On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 9:19 AM, Adam Barth <w...@adambarth.com> wrote: > >>> > >>> Inspired by a conversation with hsivonen in #whatwg, I spend some time > >>> thinking about how we would design <template> for an XML world. One > idea I > >>> had was to put the elements inside the template into a namespace other > than > >>> http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml. > > On the face of things, this seems a lot less scary than the wormhole > model. I think this merits further exploration! Thank you! > > This proposal seems worse than wormhole parsing because the interface of the template nodes is not HTMLElement, unless we're assuming it's a different but identical namespace? For instance it's super weird if <img src="x"> is missing the .src property because it's not in the HTML namespace, but suddenly when it's cloned for instantiation it's back in the HTML namespace and has the src property. - E