- From: Henrik Dvergsdal <henrik.dvergsdal@hibo.no>
- Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2007 17:22:59 +0200
- To: HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>
On 12 Jun 2007, at 13:41, Anne van Kesteren wrote: > Where does it use "element attribute"? Section 3.14.9 refers to "media element attributes". I guess this should be understood as "content attributes pertaining to media elements", but it can also be taken as a special class of element attributes. > The specification claims it uses "content attribute" unless the use > of "attribute" is not ambiguous. Just "attribute" also refers to DOM attributes in many places. > I have found no real problems with that so far. Even though the text, strictly speaking, is not ambigous, it may constitute a real problem that readers have to infer the meaning from the context. Not all readers will be as familiar with the spec as you are and if we can avoid this with simple means, it is worh considering. Relying too much on context makes the text harder to read, increases the risk of misunderstanding and makes communication more difficult (because you cannot allways bring the entire context into a conversation). In addition it increases the risk of introducing ambiguities in the text that will be difficult to spot for people who are familiar with the entire spec. So why not put in an "element" and "DOM" here and there just to explicate the difference? OTOH, I realize that it will be inconvenient to use the term "DOM attribute" in sections that exclusively deal with the DOM, for instance, so enforcing a spec-wide convention is probably a little too much. -- Henrik
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