Re: Element.createElement proposal

On 2009-08-11 2:17 AM, Robert O'Callahan wrote:
> On 11/8/09 11:21 AM, Jonas Sicking wrote:
>> That was my initial reaction too. Unfortunately there is overlap between
>> HTML names and SVG names. Specifically both languages have an <a>,
>> <style> and <script> elements. And as I understand it SVG might get a
>> <textarea> too.
> 
> Not on my watch.
> 
>> In the parsing algorithm which one to use is determined by context. I.e.
>> an <a> inside a <svg> will be a svg-a.
> 
> Let HTML win.

I'm not at all keen on having such hidden gotchas.