Re: Practical question: elements or attributes?

As a stopgap solution should the attributes also use the data*
attributes in HTML5?

I.e. data-its-*

- Pål

On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 2:35 PM, Arle Lommel <arle.lommel@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Jirka,
>
> I seem to recall that we discussed creating a custom HTML5+ITS schema that included our materials. If that were the case we could add elements, but your point about visibility overrides that anyway. I will create examples that use attributes.
>
> -Arle
>
> Sic scripsit Jirka Kosek in Apr 17, 2012 ad 12:32 :
>
>> On 17.4.2012 10:45, Arle Lommel wrote:
>>
>>> However, using elements would also be more disruptive to the target formats than would using attributes. For instance, in an HTML5+ITS combination the core structure of HTML5 could remain unaltered if we use attributes, but when we start adding elements, we are making more fundamental structural changes.
>>
>> In HTML5 you can't use your custom elements. So if possible, we should
>> stick to attributes and use multiple attributes if necessary. Also in
>> HTML5 everything in element content is visible, so for metadata we
>> should use attributes anyway.
>>
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