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Christopher R. Maden wrote: > 2) was really killed by politics, as best I can remember; > architectural forms were completely unviable in the W3C > environment, and once namespaces came along, it was pretty > much a requirement to use them. Without attribute > remapping, the options were 1) to trample on users' naming > freedom and reserve href across the board (which is still an > incomplete solution for HTML), or 3) to use namespace- > reserved attributes. I continue to think that, given the > political restrictions, the XLink WG made the right > decision. 2) would have been stronger, but AFs just didn't > make the political grade. That's what it smelled like from down in the trenches. It's good to finally hear someone in the know actually confirm it. /Jelks
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