On Thu, 28 Aug 2008 23:29:22 +0200, Ben Adida <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Kristof Zelechovski wrote:
HTML5 is too crucial as a technology to allow arbitrary experimentation.
Arbitrary? Plus, consider the risk to HTML5: nothing. Browsers don't
need to do anything (except make the attributes available in the DOM,
which they would probably do anyways.) This is just about what validates
and what doesn't.
FWIW, when considering language complexity, just considering whether it
impacts user agents seems naïve. Eg, it impacts people reading the
specification, people writing documentation, people writing books, etc.
Adding attributes is certainly not without cost even if browsers have to
do nothing at all. (Also, given examples such as Ubiquity, the idea is
that it actually does impact user agents in nontrivial ways long term.)
The idea and premise of RDF is sort of attractive (people being able to do
their own thing, unified data model, etc), though I agree with others that
the complexity (lengthy URIs, qname/curie cruft) is an issue. Especially
given the copy & paste authors you want to enable this for, down the road.
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Anne van Kesteren
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