Distributed Extensibility: An informative debate

Participants

Introduction

Noah Mendelsohn, IBM

Moderator

Henry S. Thompson, W3C and University of Edinburgh

Debaters

Tony Ross, Microsoft and Jonas Sicking, Mozilla Foundation

Definitions

1. What does 'distributed extensiblity' mean
2. What problems are we trying to solve with it -- what narrative use-cases do you think of when you are thinking about it

Core Questions

1. How do we enable distributed extensibility in HTML 5
2. How does your proposal avoid name collision
   1. If not XML namespaces, why not
3. Subsidiary issues
   • XML vs. HTML Serializations
   • API(s)
   • Validators
   • Non-browser UAs

The floor is open