- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Wed, 09 Jun 2010 18:15:23 +0200
- To: "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- CC: Jirka Kosek <jirka@kosek.cz>, Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>, public-html@w3.org
On 09.06.2010 18:02, Tab Atkins Jr. wrote: > ... > @hidden has not been a part of HTML for ages. It was introduced in > HTML5, same as @ping and Microdata. (Perhaps you temporarily confused > it with<input type=hidden>?) > ... That being said, it is controversial, and we're waiting for a decision on it (<http://dev.w3.org/html5/status/issue-status.html#ISSUE-095>). > @class and Microdata are comparable because both are arbitrary > extension points to the language for use by authors. Whether > something is "controversial" or not doesn't affect its technical merit > or how useful it would be for authors. Those latter points are what > is actually important for designing a good language. People will get > over controversy. Doesn't compute. @class has been around for ages and is in active use with CSS. It's not controversial. Microdata was a "mee-too" invention from Ian, competing with another W3C spec. Comparing both doesn't make any sense at all. Best regards, Julian
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