Re: Suggestion regarding XHTML handling

Somebody claiming to be Johannes Hofmann wrote:
>On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 10:54:35PM -0500, Stephen Paul Weber wrote:
>> Might I suggest actually doing basic namespace handling when a page is
>> delivered using an XML MIME type?
>> ... 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.
>>
>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?

Yes, but that doesn't mean dillo can't be better than firerox :)

Stuff from a namespace we understand (right now just XHTML, but in the 
future maybe SVG, MathML, whatever. or not) should get processed according 
to the rules of that namespace.  Namespaces we don't understand, and for 
which we have no processing rules, should be ignored completely.

And, I feel that if a server is serving with an XML MIME-type, we can trust 
that they expect XML-style processing rules like this, since tagsoup sites 
are not served with such a MIME.

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