Jon Gibbins wrote:
We can use rel on links, but could rel be used to permit something
like this on a span:
<span class="dtstart" rel="datetime:YYYYMMDDTHHMMSSZ+HHMM">DD
Month</span>
Hi John, I'm glad you mentioned this. It's been discussed before and
shot down given the reference, "namespaces considered harmful."
http://microformats.org/wiki/namespaces-considered-harmful
I consider that wiki entry to be an opinion piece. Note the comments
such as:
1. "Namespaces are actually a *huge* negative."
2. "Namespaces encourage people to seclude themselves..."
3. "Microformats is leveraging the approach that is both working
better and frankly dominating in practice on the Web."
I would much prefer, namespaced class or rel values to the abuse of
abbr[title], and I'd even prefer it to the title-design-pattern we're
now proposing as a compromise, but this battle has been fought and
lost before. If you want to mount another advance, my +1 will be
right behind you, but my morale in the fight will not be very high.
The target is very well-entrenched.
James
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