RE: Extensibility strategies, was: Deciding in public (Was: SVGWG SVG-in-HTML proposal)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: public-html-request@w3.org [mailto:public-html-request@w3.org] On
> Behalf Of Julian Reschke
> Sent: Saturday, August 02, 2008 2:19 AM
> To: Ian Hickson
> Cc: Sam Ruby; 'HTML WG'
> Subject: Extensibility strategies, was: Deciding in public (Was: SVGWG
> SVG-in-HTML proposal)
> 
> > If you wanted to disambiguate your "price" from other people's, you
> could
> > use a URI instead:
> >
> >    <p>The peas cost <span
> class="http://ns.intertwingly.net/price">$7.99</span>.</p>
>  > ...
> 
> Hey, that's an interesting proposal. I haven't seen that before.

Would using an URI trigger any other behavior, like downloading something from that URI and taking action upon it? Not saying it *should*, just curious if the proposal does that or not.

> Anyway: if this is a serious suggestion, we should discuss adding
> advice
> to HTML5 telling people that if they choose a URI as class name, they
> need to be sure that they have the authority to use it.

Depends on the wording, what if I want to use a 3rd party item (like the external JavaScript libraries calling third-party controls)?

J.Ja