- From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2009 16:44:03 -0500
- To: Tony Ross <tross@microsoft.com>
- Cc: "public-html@w3.org" <public-html@w3.org>
On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 4:22 PM, Tony Ross <tross@microsoft.com> wrote: > Given some of the comments in this thread, I'd like to step back and try to get consensus on the core problem. Specifically I want to know whether or not the group feels providing some sort of a solution for decentralized extensibility, in particular decentralized extensibility of markup, is important. > > In short, should HTML 5 provide an explicit means for others to define custom elements and attributes within HTML markup? Yes. However, it should do so in a way that (1) uses the same HTML5 parsing rules as everything else, and (2) ensures that any additions are done as part of a standardization process with interop as a goal, so we don't get vendor fragmentation. Allowing *some* way to extend the language is necessary to drive it forward. But this method must be structured so that the web as a whole will necessarily benefit, and vendor lock-in is not encouraged. ~TJ
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