>Can you please elaborate? >The point I was trying to make was that HTML5 language itself is not designed >to be extensible. Using Javascript does not really count (in this >context)
>As far as using the DOM, I assume you mean the Microdata format. This results >in non-standard HTML most of the time and is not supported across browsers. >And it deals more with extending data semantics and >not functional extension. In flex, IMO, we worried too much about extension and not enough about composition. So long as I have a good series of patterns (and the discipline to follow them) then I can look at the HTML DOM elements as the Atoms of the universe and assembly them with some bonds (JavaScript) to make an element. And then in turn assemble those to make any application. So, the key is not trying to extend the Atom but trying to assemble it in useful ways and allow those to be extended or recomposed. So far, I have found few limitations of this approach and often times ended up much happier. Mike
