[Bug 16869] HTML5 is missing mechanism for preventing clashes of vendor-neutral extensions

https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=16869

Jirka Kosek <jirka@kosek.cz> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|RESOLVED                    |REOPENED
         Resolution|WORKSFORME                  |

--- Comment #2 from Jirka Kosek <jirka@kosek.cz> 2012-04-26 16:50:30 UTC ---
(In reply to comment #1)
> I believe this is covered under the WG decision on ISSUE-41.
> 
> http://www.w3.org/html/wg/tracker/issues/41

I don't think so. This proposal just lifts conformance criteria for attributes
in form prefix-* and proposes registry for them (similar registries are already
used in HTML5, for example for additional meta properties).

It's far from being (and doesn't try to be) proposal solving distributed
extensibility. 

There is use-case behind this. As a part of charter of
http://www.w3.org/International/multilingualweb/lt/ we are developing set of
attributes for conveying data related to localization process (extension of
former ITS). In HTML5 we are going to use its-* attributes for this (similarly
to aria-*) and we need a way to make such content valid.

I'm reopening this bug as I think that it's just spec change with small impact
on validators. There is no need to change user agents, as they are processing
"unknown" attributes with no problems.

Jirka

P.S. What means "WORKSFORME" status?

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Received on Thursday, 26 April 2012 16:50:34 UTC