- From: Ian Hickson via cvs-syncmail <cvsmail@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 27 May 2008 09:51:27 +0000
- To: public-html-commits@w3.org
Update of /sources/public/html5/spec
In directory hutz:/tmp/cvs-serv21744
Modified Files:
Overview.html
Log Message:
Make data-='' invalid. (whatwg r1709)
Index: Overview.html
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RCS file: /sources/public/html5/spec/Overview.html,v
retrieving revision 1.895
retrieving revision 1.896
diff -u -d -r1.895 -r1.896
--- Overview.html 27 May 2008 07:25:25 -0000 1.895
+++ Overview.html 27 May 2008 09:51:24 -0000 1.896
@@ -6860,9 +6860,10 @@
<dd><code title=handler-onunload><a href="#onunload">onunload</a></code>
</dl>
- <p>Also, any attribute starting with the string "<code
- title="attr-data-*"><a href="#data-">data-</a></code>" can be specified on
- any <span>HTML element</span>, to store custom data specific to the page.
+ <p>Also, <a href="#custom" title="custom data attribute">custom data
+ attributes</a> (e.g. <code title="">data-foldername</code> or <code
+ title="">data-msgid</code>) can be specified on any <span>HTML
+ element</span>, to store custom data specific to the page.
<p>In <a href="#html-">HTML documents</a>, the <code><a
href="#html">html</a></code> element, and any other elements in the <a
@@ -7180,14 +7181,20 @@
<h4 id=embedding><span class=secno>3.4.8 </span><dfn
id=embedding0>Embedding custom non-visible data</dfn></h4>
- <p>Every <a href="#html-elements" title="HTML elements">HTML element</a>
- may have any number of attributes starting with the string "<dfn id=data-
- title="attr-data-*"><code>data-</code></dfn>" specified, with any value.
+ <p>A <dfn id=custom>custom data attribute</dfn> is an attribute whose name
+ starts with the string "<dfn id=data-
+ title="attr-data-*"><code>data-</code></dfn>" and has at least one
+ character after the hyphen.
- <p>These are intended to store custom data private to the page or
+ <p><a href="#custom" title="custom data attribute">Custom data
+ attributes</a> are intended to store custom data private to the page or
application, for which there are no more appropriate attributes or
elements.
+ <p>Every <a href="#html-elements" title="HTML elements">HTML element</a>
+ may have any number of <a href="#custom" title="custom data
+ attribute">custom data attributes</a> specified, with any value.
+
<p>The <dfn id=dataset title=dom-dataset><code>dataset</code></dfn> DOM
attribute provides convenient accessors for all the <code
title="attr-data-*"><a href="#data-">data-*</a></code> attributes on an
@@ -7267,9 +7274,6 @@
attributes or values. Specifications intended for user agents must not
define these attributes to have any meaningful values.
- <p class=big-issue>So here we're saying that microformats shouldn't use
- this... is that what we want?
-
<h3 id=interaction><span class=secno>3.5 </span><dfn
id=interaction0>Interaction</dfn></h3>
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