On Mon, 14 Aug 2006 22:52:16 -0700, Ian Hickson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
How is it different from allowing that? Besides of course that one will
"validate" and the other won't. (I agree that people using custom
attributes is painful when extending a specification. We noticed that
when implementing Web Forms 2.)
The difference is the extensibility thing, yeah.
Perhaps it could be made very clear that using custom attributes is
considered harmful. Or we could say that if people do that they either
namespace them properly or, dare I say, prefix them with "author-" or
something.
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