Note from 28 April 2020

Anyone knows which browsers support the href attribute in #SVG <use> tags without the xlink namespace?

Couldn't find the information in #CanIUse.

I'm not interested (this time) in support in SVG editors or other tools, just browsers.

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Jérémie Patonnier
All browsers since Safari 13 😉
- 28 April 2020, 09:27
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Nicolas Hoizey
Thanks!

So it's still pretty new, might be a good idea to keep namespaces for a while…
- 28 April 2020, 09:30
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Florens Verschelde
Firefox and Chromium do, WebKit doesn't.
Not sure about IE11 and Edge18.
- 28 April 2020, 09:32
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Yvain Liechti
developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web… safari 12.1 c'est indiqué ici ?
- 28 April 2020, 09:32
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Nicolas Hoizey
@fvsch well, if MDN is right, iOS Safari 12.2 do support it… interesting.

I guess all browsers will keep support for `xlink:href` for a while anyway, might be safer keeping it. But with the `xmlns` declaration.

In @esviji, I had `xlink:href` but no `xmlns`, it fails in SVGO.
- 28 April 2020, 09:49
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Florens Verschelde
Because HTML is more permissive than XML, you can use namespaced attributes without declaring the namespace and it won't blow in your face. :)
- 28 April 2020, 10:12
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Nicolas Hoizey
But I never use namespaced attributes in HTML, only in SVG… 😉

I played with @parceljs yesterday for @esviji, to replace 6 years old Grunt build, and stumbled upon this issue:
github.com/posthtml/htmln…
- 28 April 2020, 10:17
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Jérémie Patonnier
IE support unprefixed href since IE9 (it was the first)
- 28 April 2020, 12:58
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