--- In svg-developers@yahoogroups.com, Chris Lilley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wednesday, December 7, 2005, 3:21:02 PM, jeff_schiller wrote: > > j> Here's my take : > j> http://blog.codedread.com/archives/2005/12/06/the-svg-roller-coaster/ > > You note there that Opera "plans to support CDF in a big way, which is > fantastic news.". It is, I agree; part of the point of SVG being in > XMLis that it can be used as a graphical namespace - something that knows > how to draw itself - in compound documents. > > I put together a quick test, used in a recent CDF WG meeting; it serves > a compound document as a bogus unregistered media type, > application/foobar+xml with an unknown/unsniffable filename extension of > .foobar > > Thus the only thing that is known about it, per RFC 3023, is that it is > in XML. > > Opera 9 happily renders it, finding both the XHTML and SVG namespaces in > there. > > http://www.w3.org/2005/10/SVGinXHTML.foobar >
Not to take this topic too far off, but this is both good and bad, correct? I believe the whole "identification of CDF documents" is being debated within the CDF WG still (guess I need to complete my reviews of the latest docs). A server just sending any document to a user agent without knowing whether the user agent can handle it is prone to lots of failure scenarios - so how does the user agent identify that it can handle both the individual chunks of content (XHTML, SVG) and the mixture of the two types? If you want, we can continue this via email (or in my blog post)... ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Fair play? Video games influencing politics. Click and talk back! http://us.click.yahoo.com/u8TY5A/tzNLAA/yQLSAA/1U_rlB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> ----- To unsubscribe send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -or- visit http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers and click "edit my membership" ---- Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
