- From: Mark Birbeck <mark.birbeck@formsPlayer.com>
- Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2007 10:25:10 +0100
- To: "Ivan Herman" <ivan@w3.org>
- Cc: "Karl Dubost" <karl@w3.org>, "W3C RDFa task force" <public-rdf-in-xhtml-tf@w3.org>
Hi Ivan, +1 on the sad face. In my opinion [1] it's yet another example of the 'kitchen-sink' approach to standards. What's wrong with using a 'global' attribute across all W3C specifications, regardless of what it's name is? The use of @xml:lang in HTML is certainly not a problem--it's just an attribute name, and no namespace is even declared so it doesn't even have to be processed in an 'XML-way'. (I.e., 'xml' is a reserved prefix that doesn't need @xmlns:xml to be present.) Some kind of high-level approach to W3C standards is way overdue, but instead it seems to be deemed more important to worry about how browsers are going to support SQL [2]. Regards, Mark [1] http://internet-apps.blogspot.com/2007/08/fixing-web-part-1.html [2] http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#executing On 22/08/07, Ivan Herman <ivan@w3.org> wrote: > This is just wonderful. :-( > > Ivan > > Karl Dubost wrote: > > > > > > Ivan Herman (21 août 2007 - 23:23) : > >> B.t.w., I am a little bit puzzled by the properties below. If by XHTML > >> you mean XHTML1.1, then my understanding was that xml:base is not used > >> but @lang is also accepted... But these are details... > > > > XHTML 1.1 => application/xhtml+xml > > > > "On every element, the lang attribute > > has been removed in favor of the > > xml:lang attribute (as defined in > > [XHTMLMOD])." > > http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/changes.html#a_changes > > > > html5/xml => application/xhtml+xml > > > > "The xml:lang attribute may only be > > used on elements of XML documents. > > Authors must not use the xml:lang > > attribute in HTML documents. " > > http://www.w3.org/html/wg/html5/#the-lang > > > > > > -- > > Ivan Herman, W3C Semantic Web Activity Lead > Home: http://www.w3.org/People/Ivan/ > PGP Key: http://www.ivan-herman.net/pgpkey.html > FOAF: http://www.ivan-herman.net/foaf.rdf > > > -- Mark Birbeck, formsPlayer mark.birbeck@formsPlayer.com | +44 (0) 20 7689 9232 http://www.formsPlayer.com | http://internet-apps.blogspot.com standards. innovation.
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