- From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Date: Sun, 24 Aug 2008 15:53:14 -0500
On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 3:10 PM, Julian Reschke <julian.reschke at gmx.de>wrote: > Tab Atkins Jr. wrote: > >> The point was made before that html5 already has extensive extension >> mechanisms in place that can address the particular needs of various >> communities without requiring it to be written explicitly into the spec. I >> know you've said that your team has reviewed the extension mechanisms and >> found them lacking, but could you explain why it is insufficient to use >> @data-rdf-property, @data-rdf-about, etc.? I ask >> > > about these specifically because my mail timestamps show that the > > @data-* class of attributes was introduced April 10th of this year, > > while the ccRel submission is dated May 1st, and thus it's very likely > > that these were impossible to consider during your review of existing > > extension mechanisms. > > ... > > "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." -- <http://www.w3.org/html/wg/html5/#custom> > I'm confused. Are you trying to imply that my suggestion is somehow against the spec definition? If so, please accompany your quoting of the spec with an actual explanation of your point. I cannot respond to you when I essentially have to imagine your entire argument for myself first. ~TJ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.whatwg.org/pipermail/whatwg-whatwg.org/attachments/20080824/14a396d9/attachment.htm>
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