[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 73039] [Web Intents] Flagged-off implementation of an intent tag for registration.

Fri Dec 2 15:48:37 PST 2011

https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=73039

--- Comment #27 from Adam Barth <abarth at webkit.org>  2011-12-02 15:48:37 PST ---
> Makes sense. Just to be clear, given that there's no change to the parser here, the tag isn't self-closing?

Correct.

> Or will the parser still admit a self-closing tag?

Nope.  The /> syntax is for XML, not HTML.

> Is this a characteristic of other parsers, then, that we need to be careful for in the spec?

I'm not sure what question you're asking.  To change the parsing behavior, you need to change the HTML specification.

HTML does not have distributed extensibility for tags.  The extensibility is centralized in the HTML working group.

> I think I see what you mean finally. :-) I was worried I'd inadvertently impacted SVG syntax since it can be embedded. As Darin said, we haven't considered the use case for SVG resources to register intents directly. My instinct would be to do that in a different patch, though, which would introduce a corresponding change to svgnames. Should I instead include it here?

Are you suggesting adding an SVG element for intents also?  That would be something you should discuss with the SVG working group.  This approach doesn't seem very scalable.  For example, what about MathML?

> (I'm not suggesting aborting the discussion with the HTML WG, just asking about mechanics, although having a "complete" patch to show the WG might be an aid to understanding. :-))

I'm suspect the HTML working group is capable of understanding the pros and cons of adding a new element without a complete patch.

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