Re: If we have versioning, it should be in an attribute, not the doctype

• From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
• Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2007 20:09:55 -0500
• To: Murray Maloney <murray@muzmo.com>
• CC: "public-html@w3.org WG" <public-html@w3.org>
• Message-ID: <46256FE3.8050605@mit.edu>

Murray Maloney wrote:
> That would be in keeping with Web Architecture and available tools.
> Why not a namespace?

If the namespace is actually a namespace, this would have pretty adverse effects 
on styling (e.g. CSS selectors that have the XHTML namespace would not apply to 
those nodes).

If it's not actually a namespace, then a version number would be a lot clearer.

-Boris

Received on Wednesday, 18 April 2007 01:10:20 UTC