Re: Making all elements and attributes that contain hyphens valid

Silvia Pfeiffer, Wed, 16 Oct 2013 19:03:19 +1100:

> "extensibility" section talks about private use for data-* and
> non-private use should be standardised. JS libraries fall
> between these - are neither private, nor standards.

>> And to be clear, I mean we could add it as an option in the validator, not
>> necessarily as the default. [ … snip … ]

> That sounds sensible to me. And it also confirms Robin's suggestion to
> encourage library developers with a standard means of extending
> attribute names (with xxx-*) and then writing a patch for that xxx
> extension for the validator(s). I think it's worth an additional
> comment in the extensibility section.

If the spec, *as well*, develops a clearer definition of data-*, then 
one could use that definition to reject for instance, gpluss-foo="bar".
-- 
leif halvard silli

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