On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 9:17 AM, Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalm...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 1:17 AM, Jonas Sicking <jo...@sicking.cc> wrote: >> Is there a reason to support namespaced attributes at all? They are >> extremely rare, especially on the web. >> >> Ideally I'd like to deprecate them, but I suspect that's not doable. >> But I see no reason to support them in new APIs. > > SVG requires namespaced attributes for xlink, at least. We're > planning to get rid of that in SVG2, but for now it would be > necessary. > > We could, of course, just say "Too bad, don't write things that need > the xlink namespace, and wait for SVG2 to get rid of them". I don't > think this would be very bad.
Yup, that's my take on it. It's easy enough for people to write two lines of code instead of one for now. / Jonas