- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2010 17:34:20 +0100
- To: "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- CC: Toby Inkster <tai@g5n.co.uk>, Leif Halvard Silli <xn--mlform-iua@xn--mlform-iua.no>, Philip Jägenstedt <philipj@opera.com>, "public-html@w3.org" <public-html@w3.org>
Tab Atkins Jr. wrote: > On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 9:13 AM, Toby Inkster <tai@g5n.co.uk> wrote: >> <html profile="http://example.com/CarML/html5"> >> >> would automatically license class="Car" and associated data-* attributes >> to have their CarML meaning everywhere in the document. So repetition of >> the profile is rarely needed. > > It looks like you're saying that the UA either has to retrieve the > resource at the profile URL to know how to extract data from the page, > or has to understand the vocabulary natively and just activates it > when the profile is present. > > The first runs into all of the same problems that DOCTYPE retrieval > has. If this is the case, how are you addressing this? +1 > The second isn't really distributed extensibility, because the > browsers have to support each vocab manually. I disagree that this isn't D.E. You seem to assume the D.E. implies some kind of code-on-demand, which IMHO is not what most people think. Otherwise XML namespaces wouldn't qualify either. Best regards, Julian
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