Re: Extensibility vs. supporting SVG and MathML

Henri Sivonen wrote:
>> Microformats suffer from the central registry.
> 
> 
> Feature, not bug.
> 
> To enable communication between parties who aren't coordinating 
> bilaterally, it's good to have a central bulletin board announcing new 
> vocabularies so that different parties know to adopt the same 
> vocabulary. I'm inclined to think that mechanisms that try to avoid 
> letting others know about the extensions are flawed as they lead to 
> Babelization when different corners of the Web reinvent the wheel 
> instead of checking microformats.org, whatwg.org or w3.org in case the 
> wheel already exists.

Depends on the use case.

It's a feature when it encourages re-use. It's a bug when it prevents 
you from doing what you need to do.

BR, Julian