Re: ARIA as stop-gap (was Re: Next steps for the ARIA syntax discussion)

Anne van Kesteren wrote:

> I don't really see why only this is plausible. class, style, and id work 
> in HTML, SVG, and MathML. Why can't the same go for ARIA?
> 
> 

Sure, if you place the same attributes into each one of those specs, and 
update all three specs to support ARIA.

Of course, the effort in doing this is (and consequent inconsistencies) 
is exactly why we modularize things.

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