Re: PROPOSAL: Integrate ARIA attributes into the XHTML namespace

My conclusion from your response is that you are in favor of having a 
single name for these attributes; aria-foo.

Henri Sivonen wrote:
>
> On Apr 25, 2008, at 21:45 , Shane McCarron wrote:
>
>>  1. Eliminate the private "aria" namespace.
>>  2. Incorporate the 'aria-*' attributes into the XHTML namespace.
>
> Using aria-foo attributes in no namespace on elements in the 
> http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml namespace is what's being implemented.
>
>>  3. Define the attributes in an XHTML M12N-conforming module so that
>>     they can be easily incorporated into XHTML Family markup languages.
>
> So far the flagship application of Modularization--XHTML-MP--subsets 
> XHTML in a way that isn't prescribed by Modularization. This leads me 
> to believe that Modularization isn't working.
>
>>  1. It costs *us* nothing (there is work for the PFWG, but it costs
>>     the XHTML 2 Working Group nothing ;-).
>
> It's telling that you only mention cost to WGs instead of mentioning 
> cost to *implementors*.
>
>>  2. It promotes the ARIA techniques in the same way that incorporating
>>     Ruby or Xforms into the XHTML namespace promoted them - helping
>>     ensure they are not viewed as second class technologies.
>
> The aria-foo syntax has already a better uptake than either Ruby or 
> XForms.
>
>>  3. It basically eliminates the problems with CSS styling and access
>>     to the attributes via JavaScript, including the ability to develop
>>     style sheets and scripts that work portably regardless of whether
>>     the enclosing document is treated as HTML or XHTML - for the vast
>>     majority of use cases, anyway.
>
> The aria-foo syntax eliminates said problems and is what's being 
> implemented.
>
>>  4. There will only be one "name" for all the ARIA attributes.
>
> Indeed, we only need aria-foo, not aria:foo as well. This is already 
> what's happening in practice.
>

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