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Bullard, Claude L (Len) wrote:
> It isn't a data island. It is non-HTML in the renderer.
> To be specific, it is VML inside HTML using the CSS behavior
> support and the xmlns declaration, per the manual.
...
> Then it occurred to me the browser doesn't actually
> know the difference if it isn't in an XML document.
>
> I dunno Joshua. It seems to me that grandfathering
> HTML leads to problems worse than actually creating
> an XML browser that knows it is one. My particular
> bug is fixable, but it tells me that when using
> XML inside non-XML, I can't trust rules I thought
> I could trust.
IE is actually quite funny when you need to script against the VML object model. If you use elements such as
v:fill inside a v:shape and set @color on it and then serialize it you will notice that the color attribute
magically has moved from the v:fill element to the v:shape element (which is the parent of v:fill). It does so
to a lot of attributes on a lot of child elements and I can't really say I'm particularly fond of it ;).
You could say I have learned the hard way not to trust the IE HTML/"XML" engine at all (although MSXML works
mostly perfect for my needs in the browser but that is another story).
/Marcus
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