- From: Sam Ruby <rubys@us.ibm.com>
- Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2007 16:58:37 -0400
- To: public-html@w3.org
Sam Ruby wrote: > > 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. Oopsie. s/local-name/node name/g. - Sam Ruby
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