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Re: Meeting with SVG, XHTML, WAI people to move forward on ARIA as a cross cutting technology

From: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2007 19:05:46 +0200
To: "HTML WG" <public-html@w3.org>
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On Wed, 17 Oct 2007 16:44:31 +0200, Richard Schwerdtfeger  
<schwer@us.ibm.com> wrote:
> Net: Due to special treatment of the hyphen and colon characters in IE we
> agreed that it would be best to focus on using underscore. Doug will be
> discussing this with the SVG working group.
>
> So, use aria_checked as opposed to aria-checked or aria:checked

Internet Explorer doesn't treat the hyphen specially. I think the argument  
was that it was better to avoid the hyphen because it is already used in  
other attribute names (such as color-rendering).


> These are the minutes of the call.
>
>  http://www.w3.org/2007/10/17-aria-minutes.html


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