[whatwg] 3.5 'xhtml' instead of 'html' prefix

Ian Hickson ian at hixie.ch
Fri Jun 25 13:32:15 PDT 2004


On Fri, 25 Jun 2004, Anne van Kesteren (fora) wrote:
>
> # @namespace html url(http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml);
> # :not(html|*)[html|repeat="template"],
> # html|*[|repeat="template"] { display: none; }
>
> Why is a 'html' prefix used here? It might be clearer to make that
> 'xhtml' (or 'foo'; something that can't be confused with the HTML used
> on "today's web").

Fair point. Switched to "xh".

-- 
Ian Hickson               U+1047E                )\._.,--....,'``.    fL
http://ln.hixie.ch/       U+263A                /,   _.. \   _\  ;`._ ,.
Things that are impossible just take longer.   `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'



More information about the whatwg mailing list