[Bug 8381] I greatly appreciate the addition of custom user attribute values, but take strong exception to the particular notation.

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=8381


Ian 'Hixie' Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> changed:

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--- Comment #2 from Ian 'Hixie' Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>  2010-01-05 11:37:19 ---
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Status: Did Not Understand Request
Change Description: no spec change
Rationale: I am very confused by this bug report.

The data-*="" attributes aren't one attribute, they're an infinite number of
attributes. The values are strings, not objects. There's no syntactic sugar in
the markup, it's just regular content attributes. The dataSet IDL attribute is
a convenience accessor for the underlying content attributes, but it also only
uses strings for the values.

It isn't clear what syntactic sugar is to be dropped; it's not clear what
requirement regarding attribute valus it is that is to be dropped; and changing
the name from "data" to "u" seems to provide minimal improvement over the
current draft. I don't see how changing any of these would make anyhing more
powerful or easier to implement.

If you could elaborate on the proposal, ideally by pointing out the precise
parts of the spec that you think need improving by quoting the relevant text,
that would be more helpful.


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Received on Tuesday, 5 January 2010 11:37:21 UTC