Re: Removing xml:base

2013-09-16 Thread Boris Zbarsky
On 9/16/13 10:36 PM, Adam Kowalczyk wrote: Alright then, *would* be useful if supported more widely, is what I should have said. My point is the counterfactual has been given a chance and failed If there's no hope for getting traction with other vendors, then it pretty much settles it. Bu

Re: Removing xml:base

2013-09-16 Thread Adam Kowalczyk
On 2013-09-17 02:52, Boris Zbarsky wrote: On 9/16/13 8:06 PM, Adam Kowalczyk wrote: and it displays content from many third-party sources on a single page You probably want iframes for that I'm using a resource:// URI loaded in a browser with type="content", so the content is unprivileg

Re: Removing xml:base

2013-09-16 Thread Boris Zbarsky
On 9/16/13 8:06 PM, Adam Kowalczyk wrote: and it displays content from many third-party sources on a single page You probably want iframes for that The arguments so far have focused on code simplicity, lack of support in other browsers, and Mozilla itself not using the feature. Also per

Re: Removing xml:base

2013-09-16 Thread Brian Smith
On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 5:06 PM, Adam Kowalczyk wrote: > For what it's worth, I find xml:base very useful in my extension. It is a > feed reader and it displays content from many third-party sources on a > single page, so there's a need for multiple base URIs in order to resolve > relative URIs co

Re: Removing xml:base

2013-09-16 Thread Adam Kowalczyk
On 2013-08-09 15:32, Boris Zbarsky wrote: There is a proposal in https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=903372 to remove xml:base support. Do we actually use this for anything? I thought we used to set it for xbl stuff, but I don't see obvious code doing that. If we can, it would be grea

Re: Removing xml:base

2013-09-16 Thread Adam Kowalczyk
On 2013-08-09 15:32, Boris Zbarsky wrote: There is a proposal in https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=903372 to remove xml:base support. Do we actually use this for anything? I thought we used to set it for xbl stuff, but I don't see obvious code doing that. If we can, it would be grea

Re: Removing xml:base

2013-09-16 Thread Adam Kowalczyk
On 2013-08-09 15:32, Boris Zbarsky wrote: There is a proposal in https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=903372 to remove xml:base support. Do we actually use this for anything? I thought we used to set it for xbl stuff, but I don't see obvious code doing that. If we can, it would be grea

Re: Removing xml:base

2013-09-16 Thread Adam Kowalczyk
On 2013-08-09 15:32, Boris Zbarsky wrote: There is a proposal in https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=903372 to remove xml:base support. Do we actually use this for anything? I thought we used to set it for xbl stuff, but I don't see obvious code doing that. If we can, it would be grea

Re: Removing xml:base

2013-09-16 Thread Adam Kowalczyk
On 2013-08-09 15:32, Boris Zbarsky wrote: There is a proposal in https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=903372 to remove xml:base support. Do we actually use this for anything? I thought we used to set it for xbl stuff, but I don't see obvious code doing that. If we can, it would be grea

Re: Removing xml:base

2013-09-16 Thread Adam Kowalczyk
On 2013-08-09 15:32, Boris Zbarsky wrote: There is a proposal in https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=903372 to remove xml:base support. Do we actually use this for anything? I thought we used to set it for xbl stuff, but I don't see obvious code doing that. If we can, it would be grea

Re: Removing xml:base

2013-09-13 Thread Anne van Kesteren
On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 2:32 PM, Boris Zbarsky wrote: > There is a proposal in https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=903372 > to remove xml:base support. > > Do we actually use this for anything? I thought we used to set it for xbl > stuff, but I don't see obvious code doing that. > > If we

Removing xml:base

2013-08-09 Thread Boris Zbarsky
There is a proposal in https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=903372 to remove xml:base support. Do we actually use this for anything? I thought we used to set it for xbl stuff, but I don't see obvious code doing that. If we can, it would be great to rip this out: it would significant