14155 2011-09-15 09:12:28 +0000 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) 2011-10-19 23:18:57 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified HTML WG HTML5 spec unspecified Other other RESOLVED WONTFIX http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#the-xml:base-attribute-(xml-only) P3 normal --- 1 contributor ian ian mike public-html-admin public-html-wg-issue-tracking zcorpan public-html-bugzilla oldest_to_newest 56816 0 contributor 2011-09-15 09:12:28 +0000 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) Posted from: 85.227.155.223 by simonp@opera.com User agent: Opera/9.80 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.5.8; U; en) Presto/2.9.168 Version/11.51 58471 1 ian 2011-10-19 23:17:49 +0000 EDITOR'S RESPONSE: This is an Editor's Response to your comment. If you are satisfied with this response, please change the state of this bug to CLOSED. If you have additional information and would like the editor to reconsider, please reopen this bug. If you would like to escalate the issue to the full HTML Working Group, please add the TrackerRequest keyword to this bug, and suggest title and text for the tracker issue; or you may create a tracker issue yourself, if you are able to do so. For more details, see this document: http://dev.w3.org/html5/decision-policy/decision-policy.html 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. 58472 2 ian 2011-10-19 23:18:57 +0000 (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.)