- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2009 22:18:57 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Tony Ross <tross@microsoft.com>
- Cc: "public-html@w3.org" <public-html@w3.org>
On Thu, 22 Oct 2009, Tony Ross wrote: > > Given some of the comments in this thread, I'd like to step back and try > to get consensus on the core problem. Specifically I want to know > whether or not the group feels providing some sort of a solution for > decentralized extensibility, in particular decentralized extensibility > of markup, is important. > > In short, should HTML 5 provide an explicit means for others to define > custom elements and attributes within HTML markup? This is putting the cart before the horse. Before deciding whether we want a solution, we need to establish whether we have a problem. We shouldn't be discussing whether or not people should be able to create proprietary (but validating) HTML elements until we have a problem for which that is a reasonable solution. > If we cannot agree on the problem, then debating the technical details > of a potential solution is pointless. Exactly. But decentralized extensibility is not a problem. It's a class of solutions. Is there a problem? -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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