Re: Distributed Extensibility

On Thu, 2007-08-02 at 11:16 -0400, Sam Ruby wrote:
> Original here:
> http://intertwingly.net/blog/2007/08/02/HTML5-and-Distributed-Extensibility
> 
[...]
> XML permits an alternate syntax, namely default namespaces.  In certain 
> circles, such a syntax is very popular.  Regrettably, allowing such a 
> syntax would pose problems for back level user agents, and therefore 
> must be disallowed in the HTML5 “custom format”.

I'm not familiar with those problems. I'd like more details;
maybe even test cases.


-- 
Dan Connolly, W3C http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/

Received on Monday, 13 August 2007 14:24:42 UTC