On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 7:44 PM, Anne van Kesteren <ann...@annevk.nl> wrote: > On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 2:15 AM, Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalm...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Yes, real namespacing does eventually prove necessary as the >> population grows. That's fine. It's something that can be added >> organically as necessary; letting everything live in the null >> namespace first doesn't harm future namespacing efforts. > > (It shouldn't, but yet when XML added namespacing it did so in a way > that was incompatible with XML itself (see the ":" and the horrible > set of APIs in the DOM we ended up with as a result). And when XHTML > came along it used a namespace whereas HTML did not (we later fixed > that).)
Yes, I said "can be added organically". It's always possible to shoot yourself in the foot, as XML Namespaces did, if you really try. ~TJ