- From: Shane McCarron <shane@aptest.com>
- Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2008 12:51:41 -0500
- To: Ben Adida <ben@adida.net>
- CC: Ivan Herman <ivan@w3.org>, Elias Torres <elias@torrez.us>, RDFa <public-rdf-in-xhtml-tf@w3.org>
I have to agree. Re-inventing the namespacing mechanism poorly seems like an ill conceived notion. Ben Adida wrote: > > Ivan Herman wrote: >> Ie, we may end up having to use data-typeof and data-about in future >> for RDFa in HTML5? > > It's good to see the HTML5 folks thinking about extensibility, but > this approach is a bit silly. For now, it's data-, but what next? > Surely accessibility- might make sense, and since the JavaScript > libraries already have their own attributes, they might end up using > jquery-, prototype-, etc.. Might we then see a claim that, because > there's no colon, this actually isn't a namespacing mechanism? It's > all starting to look very familiar.... > > If HTML5 is about formalizing existing uses, then they should allow > extraneous attributes to validate, end of story. What they do about > xml namespaces is debatable, but this introduction of data- is > entirely artificial and backed by no existing web uses. > > -Ben -- Shane P. McCarron Phone: +1 763 786-8160 x120 Managing Director Fax: +1 763 786-8180 ApTest Minnesota Inet: shane@aptest.com
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