[whatwg] Seperation of Content and Interface

Anne van Kesteren fora at annevankesteren.nl
Thu Aug 19 11:00:14 PDT 2004


>> Yep, but my argument is that if you're saying it's generic XML, a 
>> browser should not attempt to render it, as it doesn't know that
>> the content is XHTML, and just rendering the parts that it
>> understands is unsafe.
> 
> This ignores the fact that the document may contain an XHTML doctype,
> thereby allowing the browser to identify it as a document it can
> render.

DOCTYPEs are irrelevant (except for the terrible entities). Namespaces 
matter.


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  Anne van Kesteren
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