- From: Cameron McCormack <cam@mcc.id.au>
- Date: Sun, 1 Jun 2008 11:28:19 +1000
- To: Charles McCathieNevile <chaals@opera.com>
- Cc: elharo@metalab.unc.edu, Al Gilman <Alfred.S.Gilman@ieee.org>, "Henry S.Thompson" <ht@inf.ed.ac.uk>, "www-tag@w3.org List" <www-tag@w3.org>, "public-html@w3.org WG" <public-html@w3.org>, "public-xhtml2@w3.org WG" <public-xhtml2@w3.org>, "wai-xtech@w3.org WAI-XTECH" <wai-xtech@w3.org>
Charles McCathieNevile: > What it really means is that the appropriate namespace for these > attributes is the empty string - xmlns:aria="" if you are going to use > aria:aria-[something] in a namespace aware environment, but > aria-[something] will work perfectly correctly in both a > namespace-reliant environment, and in a namespace-unaware environment, > because of a careful and thoughtful design decision in the namespaces > specification that allows for the easiest possible transition between the > two kinds of environment. A small note: you cannot use xmlns:aria="" to declare that the aria prefix corresponds to no namespace. The only way to have an attribute be in no namespace in markup is for it to have no prefix. http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml-names/#dt-prefix -- Cameron McCormack ≝ http://mcc.id.au/
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