Re: Suggestion regarding XHTML handling

On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 10:54:35PM -0500, Stephen Paul Weber wrote:
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> Might I suggest actually doing basic namespace handling when a page is 
> delivered using an XML MIME type?  For example, this page: 
> <http://aggregator.singpolyma.net/feeds/denver/> contains both XHTML and 
> embedded (namespaced) Atom, but instead of seeing the Atom as something it 
> cannot process or otherwise handling it, the rendering engine just turns all 
> the tags into inline flow content and shows the text contents in what is 
> essentially line noise.
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> I know that in a "normal" HTML page you want the heuristics to do this sort 
> of thing in case some bozo has dumped something that maybe looks like a 
> namespace into the tag soup (and namespaces aren't officially supported in 
> HTML anyway), but if the MIME-type is an XML one, the UA should be able to 
> process it as XML and ignore or otherwise handle namespaces it doesn't 
> understand.

I don't see what could be done differently here. Firefox renders it
pretty much the same way as Dillo does. Am I missing something?

Cheers,
Johannes