- From: Robin Berjon <robin@berjon.com>
- Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2007 12:47:52 +0200
- To: Marcos Caceres <marcosscaceres@gmail.com>
- Cc: "Anne van Kesteren" <annevk@opera.com>, "WAF WG (public)" <public-appformats@w3.org>
Hi Marcos, On Aug 28, 2007, at 14:01, Marcos Caceres wrote: >> A well designed format is one for which people can make uses and >> extensions unforeseen by the creator. Putting a namespace here is >> zero-cost, not putting it is just begging to look stupid down the >> line. > > Appealing to our ego's is a nice rhetorical trick, but it's better to > keep the arguments on a technical level:-) Actually "looking stupid down the line" wasn't an appeal to ego, it's just a way of giving a little perspective over time. My experience with specs is that altogether too often they had a chance of using an extension mechanism early, and those that didn't tend to look back and go "whoops" — that's technical, or at least motivated in reality. I do have rhetorical tricks, but they're usually less subtle ;-) -- Robin Berjon - http://berjon.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ E-prime is cool!
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