- From: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>
- Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2007 01:17:13 -0700
- To: Doug Schepers <schepers@w3.org>
- Cc: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>, www-svg <www-svg@w3.org>, Simon Pieters <simonp@opera.com>, Aaron M Leventhal <aleventh@us.ibm.com>, Dave Raggett <dsr@w3.org>
Trimming Cc list... On Oct 10, 2007, at 3:03 PM, Doug Schepers wrote: > > >> If SVG got a built-in href='' also, it would put namespaces >> completely out of sight except for the default incantation on the >> root element. > > Well, that's worth considering, but again, out of scope for the > topic of how to adopt @role in SVG. It would require a considerable > (and incompatible) rewrite of SVG, and I'm not at all convinced that > that is really what is best for open standards in the face of market > pressure. Can you supply justification for this, beyond purity of > design? I don't see how it would require major changes or incompatible changes. Supporting both href and xlink:href would be compatible and pretty minor change to the spec. I'm not sure if the increased ease of authoring would be worth the transition cost, but I wouldn't dismiss it out of hand. Cheers, Maciej
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