- From: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2008 19:35:38 +0300
- To: Justin James <j_james@mindspring.com>
- Cc: "'Julian Reschke'" <julian.reschke@gmx.de>, "'Ian Hickson'" <ian@hixie.ch>, "'Sam Ruby'" <rubys@us.ibm.com>, "'HTML WG'" <public-html@w3.org>
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. -- Henri Sivonen hsivonen@iki.fi http://hsivonen.iki.fi/
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