Julian Reschke wrote on 08/04/2008 04:19:42 PM: > > Sam Ruby wrote: > > Ian Hickson wrote on 08/02/2008 03:45:19 PM: > > > > > > The syntax for a self-closing element is for the element to be > > immediately > > > followed by a close tag, for example, what in proprietary XML might be > > > written as: > > > > > > <foo xmlns="http://example.com/" /> > > > > > > ...can be written in HTML5 as: > > > > > > <div class="com.example.foo"></div> > > > > Other than the fact that I would suggest span over div, this approach > > does meet the requirements I laid out. > > > > It doesn't have the benefit of field experience (in the devil you know > > vs the devil you don't know), but it would seem to work. > > As a matter of fact, it does not work, as it wouldn't be able to both > represent and disambiguate all namespace names that may occur in XHTML. To be fair, while that clearly would have been a nice to have, that was not one of my stated requirements. In fact, I would have been willing to trade off some aspects of that requirement against a solution with greater usability. But Ian found another loophole. A much bigger one. I hadn't said that usability was a requirement. > > Of course, the usuability of such an approach sucks, which I gather is > > the point of the proposal. > > Right. > > BR, Julian - Sam Ruby
Received on Monday, 4 August 2008 22:51:22 UTC