- From: Sam Ruby <rubys@us.ibm.com>
- Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2007 12:37:15 -0400
- To: Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>
- CC: public-html@w3.org
Dan Connolly wrote: > 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. Testcase: http://intertwingly.net/stories/2007/08/13/testcase.html View it both in IE and in a browser that supports XHTML and SVG. Compare the title bars. Now imagine if I had used the script element: http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG11/script.html I believe that for backwards compatibility we need to ensure that not only doesn't any extension use a local-name that may have previously been used, but also doesn't use any local-name that may every be used in potential future revisions of HTML. - Sam Ruby
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