Re: HTML 5 and Distributed Extensibility

On 9/25/07, David Orchard <dorchard@bea.com> wrote:
>
> The TAG has reviewed the proposal in
> http://intertwingly.net/blog/2007/08/02/HTML5-and-Distributed-Extensibility.
>  In short, we believe it is a very interesting start of a proposal for
> stronger support for distributed extensibility on the web in the HTML
> language.

I am not sure I understand the full implications of the referenced
proposal yet. What is the purpose of extending HTML 5 with custom
elements? Can it be solved with RDFa which is on the agenda for
inclusion in HTML 5 or is there a need for both?

Regards,

Peter