- From: Robin Berjon <robin@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 11 May 2015 12:12:19 +0200
- To: "Patrick H. Lauke" <redux@splintered.co.uk>, public-html@w3.org
On 04/05/2015 18:20 , Patrick H. Lauke wrote: > The one danger I can see here is that if role gets extended to allow an > almost arbitrary number of values, and those values are not very clearly > defined, it'll be no different from using, say, classnames to attempt > to define semantics (a la microformats) - and if a specific vocabulary > is not enforced, and authors can potentially extend role arbitrarily, > then we'll simply see a wealth of custom-use values that will be > completely non-interoperable. The one danger I can see here is that if we keep using slippery-slope arguments, and no one calls them out, we might end up mired in rhetorical fallacies. :) -- Robin Berjon - http://berjon.com/ - @robinberjon
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