- From: Michael A. Puls II <shadow2531@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2008 09:14:39 -0400
- To: public-html@w3.org
On 4/10/08, Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> wrote: > On Wed, 11 Apr 2007, Michael A. Puls II wrote: > > > > What would happen with <embed script-private="something">? Would the > > data be passed to the plug-in as a script-private param or would > > script-private be reserved; causing any plug-in using script-param not > > to get the data? (A prefix could possible avoid this.) > > This problem still exists with data-*. As written, the spec makes the > data-* attributes be sent to the plugin as well as being available to > script. O.K., thanks. > Does this cause any problems? I'm not especially concerned with > supporting proprietary plugins, but it seems like authors could just > avoiding setting the data-* attributes on <embed>, or avoid breaking on > them in their plugins, if this was an issue. Just the potential clashing with a plugin that might use data-* for one of its params, but like you said, it should be avoidable most of the time *if* the problem is ever encountered. -- Michael
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