[Bug 8381] I greatly appreciate the addition of custom user attribute values, but take strong exception to the particular notation.

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=8381


James Williams <jgwilliams@mindspring.com> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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                 CC|                            |jgwilliams@mindspring.com
            Summary|I greatly appreciate the    |I greatly appreciate the
                   |addition of custom attribute|addition of custom user
                   |values, but I take strong   |attribute values, but take
                   |exception to the particular |strong exception to the
                   |notation.  In reality, HTML |particular notation.
                   |5 is providing just one     |
                   |attribute named "data       |
            Summary|" which is quite acceptale  |
                   |because attribute values may|
                   |be structured.  W           |




--- Comment #1 from James Williams <jgwilliams@mindspring.com>  2009-11-26 03:59:48 ---
I use custom attributes all the time, debugging them in MSIE and then compiling
them into legitimate but unreadable HTML in order to get along with Firefox.  I
also make heavy use custom css attributes and would appreciate having the two
problems solved compatibly.  Here's a sample of my work that is fully
acceptable to MSIE, but that must be "compiled" for Firefox:

.cls-gray { 
        color: #809080; 
        nskin: skin-gray; 
        placement: source-line; 
        active: { font-variant: small-caps }
        }

............... 
<span class="cls-gray" nref="#termDefinition"
      style="placement: note">term&nbsp;definition</span>

Using the one-name-is-enough principle, this could easily be rewritten as

.u      { cls-gray: { 
                color: #809080; 
                nskin: skin-gray; 
                placement: source-line; 
                active: { font-variant: small-caps }
                }
        }

............... 
<span class="cls-gray" u.nref="#termDefinition"
      style="u.placement: note">term&nbsp;definition</span>


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Received on Thursday, 26 November 2009 03:59:50 UTC