Re: Web Components Suggestion

2012-08-13 Thread Brian Kardell
On Aug 13, 2012 4:49 AM, "Florian Bösch" wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 3:12 AM, Michael[tm] Smith wrote: >> >> There is no conceivable conformance checker that's going to allow the use >> of completely arbitrary tag names. It doesn't matter what formalism it uses. >> To allow custom tag name

Re: Web Components Suggestion

2012-08-13 Thread Florian Bösch
On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 12:38 PM, Chaals McCathieNevile wrote: > On Mon, 13 Aug 2012 10:47:22 +0200, Florian Bösch > wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 3:12 AM, Michael[tm] Smith wrote: >> >> There is no conceivable conformance checker that's going to allow the >>> use of completely arbitrary

Re: Web Components Suggestion

2012-08-13 Thread Chaals McCathieNevile
On Mon, 13 Aug 2012 10:47:22 +0200, Florian Bösch wrote: On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 3:12 AM, Michael[tm] Smith wrote: There is no conceivable conformance checker that's going to allow the use of completely arbitrary tag names. It doesn't matter what formalism it uses. To allow custom tag name

Re: Web Components Suggestion

2012-08-13 Thread Florian Bösch
On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 3:12 AM, Michael[tm] Smith wrote: > There is no conceivable conformance checker that's going to allow the use > of completely arbitrary tag names. It doesn't matter what formalism it > uses. > To allow custom tag names and still be able to check the conformance of > normal

Re: Web Components Suggestion

2012-08-12 Thread Michael[tm] Smith
Florian Bösch , 2012-08-12 12:36 +0200: > It's my understanding that if you want to define a strict parser using a > DTD that describes the markup, it's impossible to introduce arbitrary tage > names (as in there are not tag wildcards in a DTD). A document that used > arbitrary tags could not be v

Re: Web Components Suggestion

2012-08-12 Thread Michael[tm] Smith
"Tab Atkins Jr." , 2012-08-12 15:43 -0700: > What Dimitri said, but to address your comment directly, DTD-based > validation is long-dead, at least when applied to HTML. A DTD can't > capture the validity requirements that the HTML spec already imposes, > so it's irrelevant if it also can't valid

Re: Web Components Suggestion

2012-08-12 Thread Tab Atkins Jr.
On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 3:36 AM, Florian Bösch wrote: > It's my understanding that if you want to define a strict parser using a DTD > that describes the markup, it's impossible to introduce arbitrary tage names > (as in there are not tag wildcards in a DTD). A document that used arbitrary > tags

Re: Web Components Suggestion

2012-08-12 Thread Brian Kardell
On Aug 12, 2012 11:08 AM, "Dimitri Glazkov" wrote: > > Hi Dave! > > There's been a long, challenging, and yet inconclusive discussion > around this. Start with these threads: > > http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webapps/2011JulSep/1156.html > http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-we

Re: Web Components Suggestion

2012-08-12 Thread Dimitri Glazkov
Hi Dave! There's been a long, challenging, and yet inconclusive discussion around this. Start with these threads: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webapps/2011JulSep/1156.html http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webapps/2012AprJun/0419.html :DG< On Sat, Aug 11, 2012 at 11:05 P

Re: Web Components Suggestion

2012-08-12 Thread Florian Bösch
It's my understanding that if you want to define a strict parser using a DTD that describes the markup, it's impossible to introduce arbitrary tage names (as in there are not tag wildcards in a DTD). A document that used arbitrary tags could not be validated. On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 8:05 AM, Dave

Web Components Suggestion

2012-08-12 Thread Dave Geddes
Markup could be much cleaner if custom elements use the element name, rather than the is attribute. instead of