Re: problem with data-

OK. Let me escalate to our formal liaison to Web Apps ...

Best,

Janina

Charles LaPierre writes:
> That was the statements which was preventing us from using data- to insert mathML into a page so that it could be used by a plugin etc.  So I was never quite sure why we couldn’t use data- for that purpose but could for this purpose since both seem similar in my thinking.  I don’t remember who though putting the mathML into the data-mathml = “enter raw mathML here” thought that was a violation of the use of data-  But if this isn’t the case we could have created a plugin which could interact with the mathML.  Or there could be data-latex as another option.  Would be really good to know why we can’t do that or if the spec on data- needs to be updated.
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> Thanks
> EOM
> Charles LaPierre
> Technical Lead, DIAGRAM and Born Accessible
> Twitter: @CLaPierreA11Y
> Skype: charles_lapierre
> Phone: 650-600-3301
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> On Mar 11, 2019, at 8:13 AM, lisa.seeman <lisa.seeman@zoho.com<mailto:lisa.seeman@zoho.com>> wrote:
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> Folks, are we braking the html standard by using data- attributes?
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> I quote
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> Custom data attributes<https://www.w3.org/TR/html50/dom.html#custom-data-attribute> are intended to store custom data private to the page or application, for which there are no more appropriate attributes or elements.
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> These attributes are not intended for use by software that is independent of the site that uses the attributes.
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> From w3c schools (IE out in the wieled...)
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> Note: Custom attributes prefixed with "data-" will be completely ignored by the user agent."
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> In pother words we are going against how dat- is intended to be used.
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> All the best
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> Lisa Seeman
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> LinkedIn<http://il.linkedin.com/in/lisaseeman/>, Twitter<https://twitter.com/SeemanLisa>
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Janina Sajka

Linux Foundation Fellow
Executive Chair, Accessibility Workgroup: http://a11y.org

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)
Chair, Accessible Platform Architectures http://www.w3.org/wai/apa

Received on Monday, 11 March 2019 17:21:35 UTC