  Re: Next steps for the ARIA syntax discussion  From: Charles
McCathieNevile <chaals@opera.com> Date: Sun, 01 Jun 2008
03:01:41 +0200 To: elharo@metalab.unc.edu, "Al Gilman"
<Alfred.S.Gilman@ieee.org> Message-ID:
<op.ub1o43nowxe0ny@widsith.local>  On Fri, 30 May 2008 16:00:23
+0200, Elliotte Harold   <elharo@metalab.unc.edu> wrote:  > Al
Gilman wrote: >> WAI-ARIA could have ridden on namespaces, and
*would have* if >> namespaces were ready for prime time.  But
they're not.  I disagree strongly with this characterisation of
the issue.  In SVG, namespaces are a critical part of the
ecosystem. In HTML, they are   simply not there. In XHTML it
seems that people have actually slightly   misunderstood the
namespaces spec and the many interoperable   implementations of
that spec.  Anyway, the aria- approach works as implemented with
both   namespace-unaware HTML, and namespace-reliant SVG. That's
the strength of   the proposal. The draft is, I hope, going to
be changed to clarify that   ARIA attributes should alway