- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Mon, 04 Aug 2008 19:25:29 +0200
- To: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- CC: Justin James <j_james@mindspring.com>, 'Ian Hickson' <ian@hixie.ch>, 'Sam Ruby' <rubys@us.ibm.com>, 'HTML WG' <public-html@w3.org>
Henri Sivonen wrote: > > On Aug 2, 2008, at 09:53, Justin James wrote: > >>>> If you wanted to disambiguate your "price" from other people's, you >>>> could >>>> use a URI instead: >>>> >>>> <p>The peas cost <span >>>> class="http://ns.intertwingly.net/price">$7.99</span>.</p> >>>> ... >>> >>> Hey, that's an interesting proposal. I haven't seen that before. >> >> Would using an URI trigger any other behavior, like downloading >> something from that URI and taking action upon it? Not saying it >> *should*, just curious if the proposal does that or not. > > > The very fact that URI-based extensibility inspires that question is a > problem with URI-based extensibility. Justin later stated that he was just looking for confirmation that no lookups are intended. I agree that sometimes people get this wrong, and that's why it's a good idea to clearly state what the intended behavior is. BR, Julian
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