Re: SVG Script in Firefox troubles

On Wednesday, October 14, 2009, 8:57:18 AM, Boris wrote:

BZ> On 10/14/09 2:52 AM, Chris Lilley wrote:
>> Due to it's age, ASV supported several older working drafts of SVG as well as the eventual recommendation. Early drafts had the namespaces declared as fixed attributes in the DTD, meaning they could not be changed (and did not need to be declared in the svg file itself).

BZ> But in this case it's not a matter of using a namespace prefix without
BZ> declaring the namespace.  This is a matter of using setAttributeNS with
BZ> an explicit namespace string... and the DOM implementation proceeding to
BZ> ignore that string and infer a namespace from the name of the attribute
BZ> instead.  Or something.

True, and that is pretty broken.

BZ> I think we agree that ASV's pretty broken, though.  ;)

Yup.

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