- From: T.V Raman <raman@google.com>
- Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 02:46:11 -0700
- To: ian@hixie.ch
- Cc: hsivonen@iki.fi, public-html@w3.org, www-svg@w3.org
I suppose there is a first time for everything ... and in this case I must agree with Ian --- '_' in attr names are ugly. Ugliness not withstanding, I dont believe we need go down the ugliness of inventing a second namespacing mechanism because some dont like the current one; --- the current namespacing mechanism wont go away, and the world will be left to contend with twice the ugliness that pervades at present --- and worse, where that ugliness comes in multiple flavors. (Bertie Bots every flavored namespaces) Ian Hickson writes: > > On Thu, 18 Oct 2007, Henri Sivonen wrote: > > > > I think we should figure out a clean way to do ARIA in particular and > > not to try to establish a new generalized namespacing mechanism. > > I agree, and it's not clear to me how we even ended up considering a new > generalized namespacing mechanism here. > > I consider the use of an underscore in the "aria" attribute names to be > unacceptable from an HTML5 point of view, for the reasons I detailed in my > last e-mail in this thread. I have not seen any rational and valid > arguments against using the hyphen. I would also be happy with no > delimiter at all (ariadisabled, ariachecked). > > > On Thu, 18 Oct 2007, Richard Schwerdtfeger wrote: > > > > underscore works fine too and we don't run into the hyphen problem in > > SVG. > > The underscore _doesn't_ work fine too, for the reasons I listed in my > earlier e-mail in this thread. On the other hand, the hyphen works > absolutely fine in SVG, indeed it is how SVG works in general -- almost > all its attributes are hyphen separated! Any attributes we add to that > namespace *should* use hyphens specifically for that reason. > > -- > Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL > http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. > Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.' -- Best Regards, --raman Title: Research Scientist Email: raman@google.com WWW: http://emacspeak.sf.net/raman/ Google: tv+raman GTalk: raman@google.com, tv.raman.tv@gmail.com PGP: http://emacspeak.sf.net/raman/raman-almaden.asc
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