namespaces-considered-harmful

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namespaces considered harmful

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The mixed namespace approach has already been tried by *numerous* others since 1998 and has failed on the Web.

http://blog.davidjanes.com/mtarchives/2005_10.html#003410

OTOH, XHTML + semantic-class-names has seen widespread adoption among the web authoring/design/IA/publishing community. Microformats is leveraging the approach that is both working better and frankly dominating in practice on the Web.

http://microformats.org/blog/2006/01/09/tim-bray-on-creating-xml-dialects/

Namespaces are actually a *huge* negative. Search for:

Namespaces are actually *not* well supported in sufficient modern browsers, nor even sufficiently with enough W3C technologies or test suites as compared to (X)HTML + semantic-class-names + CSS.

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