- From: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2008 20:32:26 +0300
- To: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Cc: Justin James <j_james@mindspring.com>, "'Ian Hickson'" <ian@hixie.ch>, "'Sam Ruby'" <rubys@us.ibm.com>, "'HTML WG'" <public-html@w3.org>
On Aug 4, 2008, at 20:25, Julian Reschke wrote: > 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. That's like putting a sign saying "Push" on the door of a department store instead of replacing the handle with a slab that obviously can only be pushed. -- Henri Sivonen hsivonen@iki.fi http://hsivonen.iki.fi/
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