On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 2:38 PM, Chris Wilson <chris.wil...@microsoft.com> wrote: > Sam Ruby [mailto:ru...@intertwingly.net] wrote: >>[IE] apparently has user requirements for namespaces. Enough so that >>they chose to expand namespace support in IE8. > > Sort of. We have had (in the past as well, imo, in the future) a requirement > for decentralized extensibility - that is, that document/content authors can > extend the set of elements with their own semantic or behavioral elements. I > continue to think there is a requirement for that. (One might well ask why > we didn't implement full XML in that case; I'll politely not answer from a > historical context, but will point out that the draconian error handling and > poor fallback story make delivering content in XML in the browser a poor > solution in the ecosystem today.)
I would like to see this too, but I have similar reservations about XML. >>My understanding is that what IE8 supports evolved over time and isn't >>pretty, so not even Microsoft would propose standardizing what IE8 >>currently implements. > > Indeed. > >>Chris Wilson has the todo to define what he >>thinks could be standardized, and the current target for that action is >>a week from today. > > I'll take a stab at it. I think it's a very thorny issue, and I do not > expect to have a perfect suggestion. Looking forward to a suggestion! I doubt there are perfect solutions. Nothing else about the real world is perfect... / Jonas
