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I suppose you hate namespaces in your code too?

The vendor specific prefixes allow a playground for vendors to define and test things their own way without setting expectations for things that are not standardized, are being standardized, or have not even been conceived of yet.

It's like the X- prefix on mail and HTTP headers.




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