- From: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>
- Date: Sat, 03 Oct 2009 06:08:24 -0700
- To: Sam Ruby <rubys@intertwingly.net>
- Cc: Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc>, Adrian Bateman <adrianba@microsoft.com>, HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>, Tony Ross <tross@microsoft.com>, Brendan Eich <brendan@mozilla.org>
On Oct 3, 2009, at 5:28 AM, Sam Ruby wrote: > > Statements that I feel people can all agree to: > > 1) People (as in users and customers) have, do, and will continue to > use "xmlns:" syntax in HTML, and have, do, and will continue to > build tools that solve their perceived use cases based on this syntax. What's our goal for what we're calling "Decentralized extensibility"? Is it to provide *any* form of extensibility that doesn't require centralized coordination? Or is it to provide a syntax that uses prefixes, colons as a separator, indirect prefix binding, URIs as namespace identifiers, and xmlns attributes to declare prefixes? I get the sense that, for many people, only a solution that looks like Namespaces in XML will satisfy. If that is indeed the case, should we rename this issue from "Decentralized extensibility" to "XML-style namespace syntax"? Regards, Maciej
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