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RE: What is the rule for parsing XML in a namespace inside HTM

• To: "Bullard, Claude L \(Len\)" <len.bullard@i...>
• Subject: RE: What is the rule for parsing XML in a namespace inside HTML?
• From: "Joshua Allen" <joshuaa@m...>
• Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2004 10:30:07 -0700
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• Thread-topic: What is the rule for parsing XML in a namespace inside HTML?

> browser is the bay window onto web content for human 
> consumption, as you point out, and there is no reason to 
> change that just because the web specifications are becoming 
> moribund.  I'm glad to read that the IE team is back at work. 

Yeah, as the "bay window" the browser still is of utmost importance.  I
personally am impressed by the more pragmatic attitude that some browser
vendors seem to be taking now [0], going with whatever works best for
the user and can get consensus among browser vendors, rather than doing
user-hostile things in the name of purity to some random irrelevant
spec.  In fact, the Hyatt discussion has morphed in a sense into a
discussion about namespaces in HTML [1], and the remarkable thing is
that *none* of these people are suggesting the facist route of "force
the whole world to use XHTML and only then will it work!".  That's a
good sign, IMO.

[0] http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/hyatt/archives/2004_07.html#005928
[1] http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2004/07/12/ExtendingHTML

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