On ISSUE-41: Decentralized extensibility

I just realized I'd never sent my opinion about extensibility in HTML.

In short, I think extensibility is a very good idea, with some parameters around it.  Particularly as I look at the challenges of sanely incorporating vocabularies such as SVG and MathML, and then what we would need to do when the next vocabulary comes along, it would seem to be a necessity (or we're just encouraging people to roll their own).  I think it's a poor language that doesn't think about its own extensibility, particularly when its own vocabulary already approaches "prohibitively large".

-Chris

Received on Thursday, 17 July 2008 05:07:05 UTC