Re: more namespace abuse

[Wayne Steele <xmlmaster@hotmail.com>]

That's pretty funny.

I can understand what they're trying to do, and why.

But I wish they hadn't "based" this proprietary HTML namespacing mechanism 
on XML namespaces, which already have enough confusion around them.

IIRC, IE 5 had an PI approach to declaring these HTML 'namespaces'.

Did someone decide using an XMLNS attribute was better?

-Wayne Steele



>From: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@simonstl.com>
>To: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
>Subject: more namespace abuse
>Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 17:01:44 -0500
>
>I don't even really know how to talk about it:
>
>http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/Author/dhtml/overview/customTags.asp
>
>Wow.  Wow.  That's really weird.
>
>Simon St.Laurent - Associate Editor, O'Reilly and Associates
>XML Elements of Style / XML: A Primer, 2nd Ed.
>XHTML: Migrating Toward XML
>http://www.simonstl.com - XML essays and books

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