- From: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>
- Date: Mon, 11 May 2009 15:55:22 -0700
- To: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Cc: Sam Ruby <rubys@intertwingly.net>, public-html@w3.org
On May 11, 2009, at 1:55 AM, Ian Hickson wrote: > On Mon, 11 May 2009, Sam Ruby wrote: >> >> It also appears that Ben's objection could be addressed by simply >> picking a >> name other than 'property' for that particular attribute. > > Indeed. At the risk of starting a permathread, if anyone has any > suggestions of a name that's better than "property", please do > suggest it. > So far, the only suggestion has been "key", which isn't really > better than > property="". I think it would do more harm to HTML to have a bad > attribute > name here than it would to RDFa for the attribute to be the same > (there is > actually no conflict as the spec is written now, it's only if RDFa > starts > extending into new fields, e.g. prefix-less identifiers, that there > would > actually be a serious problem). Synonyms for "property": - attribute - aspect - quality - trait Looking at it another way, synonyms for "relation": - relation - connection - predicate It's probably not a good idea to use "attribute" but I think most of the others should work. Regards, Maciej
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