- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 21:50:44 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Cc: Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>, public-html@w3.org
On Wed, 31 Oct 2007, Julian Reschke wrote: > > - If the HTML WG thinks that the name is not important, then, it seems, > the right way to address this is to stop using it and make the XHTML WG > happy. We covered this option in the e-mail to which you replied: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2007Oct/0386.html > - But as far as I recall, the much more interesting question is what > namespace to use, right? The namespace is a separate issue, but actually it's a very simple issue. We have no choice whatsoever on what namespace to use -- in order to continue being compatible with legacy content and legacy user agents, we are forced to use "http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml". (That's unfortunate, because having a year in a namespace is IMHO poor design, but oh well.) -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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