  Re: ISSUE-4: Versioning, namespace URIs and MIME types  From:
Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU> Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2009 11:40:10
-0500 Message-ID: <499C39EA.90906@mit.edu> To: Robert J Burns
<rob@robburns.com> Robert J Burns wrote: > I understand from the
short example. And I also understand the longer  > example you
provide. The scripting is simply a distraction. If the  > author
is authoring to HTML5 then the author would not append child  >
elements to the img element. So now you're producing invalid
HTML5. If  > the author is producing XHTML2, then the author
would not provide an alt  > attribute.  So you're also producing
invalid XHTML2.  I don't think the scripting is a distraction at
all.  The key here is  that once the <img> element has been
created the script wants to show an  image to the user using
that element.  The script that creates the  element and the
script doing the showing need not be the same script, or
authored by the same person (e.g. the script doing the showing
is a  library that doe