Sam Ruby [mailto:rubys@intertwingly.net] wrote: >[IE] apparently has user requirements for namespaces. Enough so that >they chose to expand namespace support in IE8. Sort of. We have had (in the past as well, imo, in the future) a requirement for decentralized extensibility - that is, that document/content authors can extend the set of elements with their own semantic or behavioral elements. I continue to think there is a requirement for that. (One might well ask why we didn't implement full XML in that case; I'll politely not answer from a historical context, but will point out that the draconian error handling and poor fallback story make delivering content in XML in the browser a poor solution in the ecosystem today.) >My understanding is that what IE8 supports evolved over time and isn't >pretty, so not even Microsoft would propose standardizing what IE8 >currently implements. Indeed. >Chris Wilson has the todo to define what he >thinks could be standardized, and the current target for that action is >a week from today. I'll take a stab at it. I think it's a very thorny issue, and I do not expect to have a perfect suggestion. >My read is that if a suitable standard were defined and agreed to, >Microsoft would be willing to move in that direction over subsequent >releases of IE. Of course. >What they would not be willing to do is to have no >namespace support at all. Chris is welcome to correct me here. I'd say I think it would be a distinct mistake to not have decentralized extensibility. I think namespaces are a convenient, somewhat familiar way of thinking about that, but not perhaps the only way. -ChrisReceived on Friday, 6 March 2009 22:39:17 GMT
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