What's in a name?

Hi James, Cynthia, David, and Ian,

Sam wrote to Leif in another thread:

> And (recognizing that I do NOT work for a
> browser vendor), I do believe that a solution for these problems can be
> specified in a matter of months and demonstrably conforming public
> implementations could be produced in a matter of months after that.
>
> As to whether or not that attribute should be spelled "longdesc"

One question to our task force browser reps: would you implement a
change proposal with the exact same verbiage as the instatelongdesc
proposal [1] if the HTML5 attribute name @longdesc was changed to
@desc or @describedat something similar [2]? Does the name make a
difference to your company implementing it?

Best Regards,
Laura
[1] http://www.w3.org/html/wg/wiki/ChangeProposals/InstateLongdesc
[2] https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=10455
Related Ref "New HTML Attribute":
[3] http://www.d.umn.edu/~lcarlson/research/constriants/newattribute.html
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Laura L. Carlson