Re: data-* attributes [was: Re: ISSUE-41/ACTION-97 decentralized-extensibility]

>
> More irritatingly, the SVGweb solution is invalid in so many other 
> ways: For the <object> variant, the IE version uses the invalid 
> src="" attribute instead of data="". And no attempt is made on using 
> OBJECT fallback - instead one uses conditional comments.
>

in particular,

> the IE version uses the invalid src="" attribute instead of data="".

The use of src='resourcefilename' would not be invalid if the host 
browser has negotiated with the plugin to handle it this way.
In <object> the standard attribute @data has some special features but 
is not related that I can see to the "data-" discussion.

Thanks and Best Regards,
Joe

Received on Tuesday, 20 October 2009 01:21:16 UTC