Re: Decentralised extensibility idea (ISSUE-41)

Julian Reschke wrote:
> Tab Atkins Jr. wrote:
>> On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 9:34 AM, Julian Reschke 
>> <julian.reschke@gmx.de> wrote:
>>> Tab Atkins Jr. wrote:
>>>> 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.
>>
>> I'm making a slightly subtler point.  Microdata, RDFa, and even XML
>> Namespaces can all be processed with a generic processor that has no
>> information about the actual vocabularies being used.  You can just
>> say "Find me all the items/triples/namespaced elements on the page",
>> and it can do it.  Thus the extensibility granted by these
>> technologies is distributed, as no central authority has to recognize
>> and bless your vocab for it to be processable by generic tools.
>> ...
> 
> Understood.
> 
> This is the well-known issue of @profile allowing to signal the presence 
> of a specific extension, but being able to identify where exactly it is 
> used; so it doesn't disambiguate.
> ...

s/allowing/not allowing/

BR, Julian