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

On Aug 2, 2008, at 09:53, Justin James wrote:

>>> 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.


The very fact that URI-based extensibility inspires that question is a  
problem with URI-based extensibility.

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