- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 16:18:46 +0000 (UTC)
On Wed, 16 Jun 2004, Jim Ley wrote: > > So it is the intention of Web Forms 2.0 to extend the XHTML namespace, > not caring that the WHATWG do not have change control over that > namespace and specifically introducing incompatibilities with any future > XHTML specification the W3C may wish to introduce? Yes, pretty much. However, that is highly unlikely to be an issue since the HTML Working Group chairman has stated that XHTML2 is the way forward as far as the W3C is concerned (and XHTML2 has its own namespace). Note that there is nothing worse about extending XHTML1's namespace than there is over extending HTML4. The W3C could just as easily want to extend HTML4. And note that the way that UAs have implemented XHTML1 there is no real difference between the two -- all the HTML extensions such as <marquee> work just as well in XML documents using XHTML's namespace as in HTML document in UAs that support both. Similarly, DOM extensions such as the extremely popular "as used by GMail" object XMLHttpRequest polute the DOM namespace in the same way. Since the WHATWG project was formed out of the W3C's reluctance to extend the XHTML1, HTML4, and DOM namespaces in this way, it doesn't seem likely that any of this will cause a problem. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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