Re: data-* attributes [was: Re: ISSUE-41/ACTION-97 decentralized-extensibility]

On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 10:23 AM, James Graham <jgraham@opera.com> wrote:
> To take a slightly different example, it is OK to have data-marquee that is
> used by a script that the author includes in the page to implement marquee
> effects. But it is not permitted for a user agent to provide its own marquee
> effects based on the presence of a marquee attribute.
>
> Is the distinction clear now? It is likely that the spec needs clarification
> on this point.

As another example, it's also not okay for, say, a search engine
spider to base behavior off of something in a data-* attribute.  This
is why data-* was not appropriate for embedding RDF, since one of the
purposes of embedding RDF was to make data available to crawlers.

~TJ

Received on Monday, 19 October 2009 15:35:04 UTC