We've had several years of experience with the proposed extensibility syntax, since it's taken directly from XML 1.0 (and XHTML 1.0). Some common real-world uses include SVG and MathML on web pages, and Creative Commons license data (using RDFa) for HTML documents.
The main reason for this general approach is that it works with current (and future) XML vocabularies like SVG.
I'm under the impression that Microsoft doesn't support SVG in IE for political and competitive reasons, and that this proposal isn't going to change that, so I really don't see the point.
I guess I don't really know how proposals like this help move things forward. I'm just your average web developer frustrated by the lack of progress in compatibility between browsers.
> Some common real-world uses include SVG and MathML on web pages
If Internet Explorer supported these in any capacity (e.g. had any support for XHTML), they might be common. But in the "real world" I have experience with, they are vanishingly rare, used mainly in demos and by geeks for their personal sites (e.g. Sam Ruby).
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We've had several years of experience with the proposed extensibility syntax, since it's taken directly from XML 1.0 (and XHTML 1.0). Some common real-world uses include SVG and MathML on web pages, and Creative Commons license data (using RDFa) for HTML documents.
The main reason for this general approach is that it works with current (and future) XML vocabularies like SVG.
I see.
I'm under the impression that Microsoft doesn't support SVG in IE for political and competitive reasons, and that this proposal isn't going to change that, so I really don't see the point.
I guess I don't really know how proposals like this help move things forward. I'm just your average web developer frustrated by the lack of progress in compatibility between browsers.
> Some common real-world uses include SVG and MathML on web pages
If Internet Explorer supported these in any capacity (e.g. had any support for XHTML), they might be common. But in the "real world" I have experience with, they are vanishingly rare, used mainly in demos and by geeks for their personal sites (e.g. Sam Ruby).