Re: CSS WG comments on SVG 1.2

On Tuesday 30 November 2004 00.15, you wrote:
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>Kurt Cagle wrote:
>>   I would second Antoine's comment, and see it as a problem that's 
>> coming up more and more often as the CSS vocabularies expand. These are 
>> also likely to collide with areas such as XUL (consider that XUL has a 
>> tooltip attribute, and an overlay element).
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>The XUL tooltip attribute doesn't have anything to do with CSS, and only 
applies to elements in the XUL namespace (being an attribute that's only 
defined for those elements). 
>
Yes, but  CSS applies to XUL like CSS applies to SVG... So CSS impacts all of 
our markups with its loose-cannon approach of not requiring a namespace of 
its own when being applied inside other peoples' namespaces.

I have just seen an example of this having previously happened during a talk 
at the SVG London Users Group, where I caught an odd-looking attribute, whose 
name came about when it had to be re-assigned due to a name collision with 
CSS. It was in one of XUL or XBL.