- From: Sam Ruby <rubys@intertwingly.net>
- Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2009 18:18:48 -0400
- To: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- CC: Tony Ross <tross@microsoft.com>, "public-html@w3.org" <public-html@w3.org>
Ian Hickson wrote: > On Thu, 22 Oct 2009, Tony Ross wrote: >> Given some of the comments in this thread, I'd like to step back and try >> to get consensus on the core problem. Specifically I want to know >> whether or not the group feels providing some sort of a solution for >> decentralized extensibility, in particular decentralized extensibility >> of markup, is important. >> >> In short, should HTML 5 provide an explicit means for others to define >> custom elements and attributes within HTML markup? > > This is putting the cart before the horse. Before deciding whether we want > a solution, we need to establish whether we have a problem. > > We shouldn't be discussing whether or not people should be able to create > proprietary (but validating) HTML elements until we have a problem for > which that is a reasonable solution. Is <datagrid> proprietary? >> If we cannot agree on the problem, then debating the technical details >> of a potential solution is pointless. > > Exactly. But decentralized extensibility is not a problem. It's a class of > solutions. Is there a problem? HTMLn, for any value of 'n', is by necessity a snapshot. No matter when the snapshot is taken, there will always be elements which are not /yet/ ready to be standardized. Prematurely identifying any such element as proprietary simply poisons the discussion. - Sam Ruby
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