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Bug 14155 - Drop the conformance requirement banning xml:base in HTML. If authors want to use xml:base with script in an "HTML document", there's no reason why should stop them. (It can be useful to implement new URL(url, baseurl) polyfill, for instance)
Summary: Drop the conformance requirement banning xml:base in HTML. If authors want to...
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: HTML5 spec (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: HTML WG Bugzilla archive list
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
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Reported: 2011-09-15 09:12 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2011-10-19 23:18 UTC (History)
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Description contributor 2011-09-15 09:12:28 UTC 
Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/complete/elements.html
Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#the-xml:base-attribute-(xml-only)
Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#the-xml:base-attribute-(xml-only)

Comment:
Drop the conformance requirement banning xml:base in HTML. If authors want to
use xml:base with script in an "HTML document", there's no reason why should
stop them. (It can be useful to implement new URL(url, baseurl) polyfill, for
instance)

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Comment 1 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2011-10-19 23:17:49 UTC 
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Status: Rejected
Change Description: no spec change
Rationale: It can't be serialised to text/html. We try to avoid making it conforming to generate non-serialisable DOMs.
Comment 2 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2011-10-19 23:18:57 UTC 
(Because we define conformance for DOMs, not strings, and it would be misleading to people if we said xml:base was allowed but when they tried to use it it generated invalid DOMs due to the lack of parser support for xml:* in HTML.)