Re: Possible *third* proposal for ISSUE-41 Distributed Extensibility

On Mar 30, 2010, at 17:13, Sam Ruby wrote:

> I write scripts all the time that parse HTML pages.  I write scripts all the time that produce HTML pages.  These scripts aren't written in JavaScript nor do they run in a browser, nor do does it make sense for the results need to be standardized.
> 
> At times I find it handy to have what I stated above "attributes that ARE intended for use by software that is independent of the site that uses the attributes".

I see I paid too much attention to the word "independent".

If you write the content and the scripts to consume them, I wouldn't consider the scripts to be "independent" of the HTML.

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Received on Tuesday, 30 March 2010 14:54:47 UTC