- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2008 13:13:50 +0100
- To: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- CC: Larry Masinter <masinter@adobe.com>, "www-tag@w3.org" <www-tag@w3.org>
Ian Hickson wrote: > ... > HTML5 does not provide for a way for groups other than the working group > to invent new elements, yes. Historically, such attempts have proved > somewhat disastrous -- <marquee>, <blink>, <spacer>, etc. In fact I am > hard-pressed to come up with any good example of an extension in the > element space that was benficial to the Web and wasn't developed by a > working group. > ... Note that HTML4 didn't allow that either, but the extensions happened anyway. The interesting issue to me is not *who* is making extensions (that's a separate issue), but how hard it is do so. If any change requires changing core parts of HTML5 (and with it implementations of parsers and serializers), that's something I personally would consider a major failure. > ... BR, Julian
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