- From: Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc>
- Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2011 09:59:05 -0700
- To: "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Cc: Dominic Cooney <dominicc@google.com>, WebApps WG <public-webapps@w3.org>, Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>, Garrett Smith <dhtmlkitchen@gmail.com>, Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>, Glenn Maynard <glenn@zewt.org>, Aryeh Gregor <ayg@aryeh.name>
On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 9:17 AM, Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 1:17 AM, Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc> wrote: >> Is there a reason to support namespaced attributes at all? They are >> extremely rare, especially on the web. >> >> Ideally I'd like to deprecate them, but I suspect that's not doable. >> But I see no reason to support them in new APIs. > > SVG requires namespaced attributes for xlink, at least. We're > planning to get rid of that in SVG2, but for now it would be > necessary. > > We could, of course, just say "Too bad, don't write things that need > the xlink namespace, and wait for SVG2 to get rid of them". I don't > think this would be very bad. Yup, that's my take on it. It's easy enough for people to write two lines of code instead of one for now. / Jonas
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