- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Wed, 05 Aug 2009 18:12:01 +0200
- To: martin@weborganics.co.uk
- CC: Philip Taylor <pjt47@cam.ac.uk>, RDFa Developers <public-rdf-in-xhtml-tf@w3.org>
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
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