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Re: Decentralised extensibility idea (ISSUE-41)

From: Leif Halvard Silli <xn--mlform-iua@xn--mlform-iua.no>
Date: Sat, 16 Jan 2010 21:53:54 +0100
To: Aryeh Gregor <Simetrical+w3c@gmail.com>
Cc: Toby Inkster <tai@g5n.co.uk>, Philip Jägenstedt <philipj@opera.com>, "public-html@w3.org" <public-html@w3.org>
Message-ID: <20100116215354715659.f375f83d@xn--mlform-iua.no>
Aryeh Gregor, Fri, 15 Jan 2010 14:16:26 -0500:
> On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 11:13 AM, Toby Inkster <tai@g5n.co.uk> wrote:

>>        * a WYSIWYG editor wishes to use a special attribute to note
>>          that certain parts of a document should be skipped by the
>>          spell check function. Rather than adding a proprietary
>>          attribute or using namespaces, they'd just add something
>>          like data-spellcheck="skip" to those elements, with a
>>          profile attribute allowing that particular data-*

> 1) Why can't you use Microdata for both of those just as easily?

Microdata and DE could also live side-by-side - be used for different 
purposes, in the same element.
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leif halvard silli
Received on Saturday, 16 January 2010 20:54:29 UTC

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