Re: HTML5 Progress

I have to agree.  Re-inventing the namespacing mechanism poorly seems 
like an ill conceived  notion.

Ben Adida wrote:
>
> Ivan Herman wrote:
>> Ie, we may end up having to use data-typeof and data-about in future 
>> for RDFa in HTML5?
>
> It's good to see the HTML5 folks thinking about extensibility, but 
> this approach is a bit silly. For now, it's data-, but what next? 
> Surely accessibility- might make sense, and since the JavaScript 
> libraries already have their own attributes, they might end up using 
> jquery-, prototype-, etc.. Might we then see a claim that, because 
> there's no colon, this actually isn't a namespacing mechanism? It's 
> all starting to look very familiar....
>
> If HTML5 is about formalizing existing uses, then they should allow 
> extraneous attributes to validate, end of story. What they do about 
> xml namespaces is debatable, but this introduction of data- is 
> entirely artificial and backed by no existing web uses.
>
> -Ben

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