- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Wed, 7 May 2014 20:23:38 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Ryosuke Niwa <rniwa@apple.com>
- cc: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@annevk.nl>, Wilson Page <wilsonpage@me.com>, Dimitri Glazkov <dglazkov@google.com>, public-webapps@w3c.org
On Wed, 7 May 2014, Ryosuke Niwa wrote: > > How are you going to quantify the risk of adding a new global attribute > in the future? Same we we do today. Look to see how many pages use the attribute, find a name that's not used much, and then try to deploy it and see what breaks. > I don't want us to depend on some random search engines to make a guess > as to which names are safe to use. That's basically how we've been doing it so far. I mean, it's not like disallowing people from making up attributes has stopped everyone from making up attributes. This is already a problem. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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