[jayrox]

just feels backwards to me. the <html:* > stuff seems like it should all be under the default html namespace and assumed. where as the other stuff may be better suited to be namespaced.

just seems like a waste adding "html:" to all of the root/core elements.

[madoublet]

I thought it was a joke after I saw <html:html>.

[ape4]

If that happened browsers would have to make "html:" optional. So authors could get away without using it.

[jayrox]

and at that point a complete waste of being in the spec to start with.

[xienze]

Err, no. XML allows you to set the root namespace for an element so it and child elements have an assumed namespace.

The point of using namespaces is to allow embedding different document/element types in the same document.