[whatwg] microformats incompatible with WebApps 1.0 ?

[Mike Schinkel]

Martin Atkins wrote:
> Mike Schinkel wrote:
> > But you are assuming there is a downside to them for 
> calling it "foo-name"
> > vs. just "name."  There isn't; developers use conventions all the 
> > time.  And if you read my proposal clearly, the prefix is 
> only needed 
> > on a top-level element or to disambiguate.
> I'm not sure if you are actually proposing what I'm proposing 
> or if you're just mentioning this in passing, but it seems to 
> me a reasonable compromise to create a registry of 
> *container* classes which can contain microformats or other 
> extension stuff. Since these things only have to be used 
> once, they can be a little bit obtuse to avoid conflicts with 
> author-invented classnames.
> You just need to mention in some spec (which, in theory, 
> doesn't even have to be the HTML5 spec, since "class" is just 
> an list of opaque strings as far as HTML is concerned) that 
> there will be a registry of container classes which will all 
> have some common prefix and that within that container anything goes.
> Some arbitrary new microformat "foo" could then be assigned (for
> example) the prefix "x-foo", into which it can plonk whatever 
> it likes:
>     <div class="x-foo">
>         <div class="cheese">Cheddar</div>
>     </div>
> You could even go so far as to specify that these prefix 
> names will never contain a dash, so the "owners" of the x-foo 
> prefix would be able to invent their own containers such as 
> x-foo-giraffe without fear of a later "registrant" getting 
> that as a container name.
> If any of the inner classnames conflict between schemas, they 
> can be disambiguated in CSS and elsewhere using contextual selectors.
> Authors would then be discouraged (but probably not 
> forbidden) from using the "x-" prefix (or whatever is 
> selected) for their own made-up classnames.

Wow, you lost me on that one. I've read this three separate times and I
still can't figure out what you are proposing.  Can you clarify?  TIA.

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