[whatwg] Common Subset

[Alexey Feldgendler]

On Sat, 09 Dec 2006 18:50:58 +0600, Lachlan Hunt  
<lachlan.hunt at lachy.id.au> wrote:

>> The HTML5 spec could somehow officially bless CDATA only when used like  
>> this:
>>  <script>//<![CDATA[
>> ...
>> //]]></script>
>>  It would not harm because it is already interoperable.

> It's technically already allowed because script and style elements are  
> defined to contain CDATA.  So basically any string of text that doesn't  
> include '</' before the end tag is valid.

Oops. My bad. Okay then, it's good that we have a way to write scripts in  
the common subset of HTML5 and XHTML5 without escaping every < and &.

> Only Opera (AFAIK) even implemented support for CDATA sections in HTML.  
>   So although that may suggest that they can be supported by browsers  
> without breaking anything, their use wouldn't be backwards compatible  
> with other legacy browsers, so they have to be forbidden.

I'm not saying they should be allowed outside of <script> and <style>.


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