Re: SVGWG SVG-in-HTML proposal (Was: ISSUE-41: Decentralized extensibility)

Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi> wrote on 07/29/2008 09:36:03 AM:
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> On Jul 29, 2008, at 15:00, Sam Ruby wrote:
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> > It might turn out that namespace prefixes in a few well defined
> > places is possible, or that the predictable error recovery currently
> > specified can be tweaked (while still retaining the quality of being
> > predictable).
>
> Indeed, it seems feasible to have a reasonable number of attribute
> names that have hard-wired prefixes

That is, indeed, one possibility.

My larger point is that there is a spectrum between the full-on bells and
whistles approach to XML namespaces that was explored and rejected a half a
decade ago and a no-namespaces, no-how, under no circumstances approach to
namespaces that was present in HTML5 a mere few months ago.  And exploring
the solution space for the potential of small movements along that spectrum
should not require "radical new evidence".

- Sam Ruby

Received on Tuesday, 29 July 2008 17:26:34 UTC