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OscarGodson / HTML6

A spec to HTML6
http://html6spec.com
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Renaming the language and namespace #21

Closed cshaa closed 11 years ago

cshaa commented 11 years ago

As said in #17, renaming this repo to NML (namespace markup language) or NHTML would (namespace hypertext markup language) would be more accurate. To make the web-writing faster, the html namespace could be renamed to n - that's short enough :)
And the html:html would be n:root (or n:html to keep the tradition?)

philandy commented 11 years ago

That would require a major rewrite of everything (not saying that's wrong). I would consider this transitional and leaving it as html is not wrong.

Further, due to being explicit for the greater good, n: is wrong. At minimum it would be name:.

cshaa commented 11 years ago

Why is n: wrong? Nobody uses this namespace as far I know. And it would be faster to write.

OscarGodson commented 11 years ago

@m93a It's not explicit. HTML wasn't meant to type super fast (or else all tags would just be 1-3 characters) it's meant to be read. As I've stated in other tickets, the point of my proposal is to not make a markup language optimized for typing, but for reading (semantics). For one, you should be writing very little HTML when building any app or web site aside from the initial page code up, which even then is only a few hours.

As for the name change, HTML6 is mostly just for marketing. It is different than HTML and should have a different name, however, if I change it 90% of the traffic to the repo would be lost. "HTML6" brings this site up as #1 on Google and Bing and Google Analytics shows people looking up "html6" is the number 1 driver to the site.

cshaa commented 11 years ago

Or the language itself would be nml and html (version 6) would be one of its APIs.