Re: Minutes for July 30th, 2009 RDFa Telecon

Martin McEvoy wrote:
> Hello Julian...
> 
> Julian Reschke wrote:
>> Martin McEvoy wrote:
>>> ...
>>> So something like this would be a suitable proposal:
>>>
>>> <section data-pet="http://example.com/animal#"
>>>         data-animal="http://example.org/"
>>>         typeof="pet:cat animal:feline">
>>> ...
>>
>> Nope. See <http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/Overview.html#attr-data>:
>>
>> "Custom data attributes  are intended to store custom data private to 
>> the page or application, for which there are no more appropriate 
>> attributes or elements.
>>
>> These attributes are not intended for use by software that is 
>> independent of the site that uses the attributes."
> but this is private to the page, data-pet="http://example.com/animal#"  
> ...is it not?
> 
> as for not intended for use by software that is independent of the site, 
> why does that matter when the web page itself is the application? surely 
> there is nothing wrong with that?
> ...

I thought the purpose was to expose additional data to clients, 
independent of the page?

BR, Julian