Re: [whatwg] Possible compremise for namespaces in html5

2010-02-11 Thread Ian Hickson
On Thu, 5 Nov 2009, Rob Ennals wrote: I've talked to a few people about the distributed extensibility problem and I'd like to suggest a possible compromise There are a huge number of distributed extensibility problems, many of which are already resolved in HTML5. For the purposes of

[whatwg] Possible compremise for namespaces in html5

2009-11-05 Thread Rob Ennals
[this is Ron Ennals from Intel, posting from gmail on my phone while at tpac] I've talked to a few people about the distibuted extensibility problem and I'd like to suggest a possible compremise: * maintain a central registry of prefixes with standard meanings - so eg fb always means

Re: [whatwg] Possible compremise for namespaces in html5

2009-11-05 Thread Rob Ennals
Ug. s/compremise/compromise/ s/Ron Ennals/Rob Ennals/ I'm tired... -Rob On Nov 5, 2009, at 4:50 PM, Rob Ennals rob.enn...@gmail.com wrote: [this is Ron Ennals from Intel, posting from gmail on my phone while at tpac] I've talked to a few people about the distibuted extensibility problem

Re: [whatwg] Possible compremise for namespaces in html5

2009-11-05 Thread Rob Ennals
I talked to a few more people, resulting in the following additional requirement: A prefixed node MUST NOT contain HTML nodes This is to stop people creating prefixed nodes that replace HTML nodes, with resulting loss in universally understood semantics. Prefixed tag names are to be used only