- From: Ben Adida <ben@adida.net>
- Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2008 10:22:59 -0700
- To: Ivan Herman <ivan@w3.org>
- CC: Elias Torres <elias@torrez.us>, RDFa <public-rdf-in-xhtml-tf@w3.org>
Ivan Herman wrote: > Ie, we may end up having to use data-typeof and data-about in future for > RDFa in HTML5? It's good to see the HTML5 folks thinking about extensibility, but this approach is a bit silly. For now, it's data-, but what next? Surely accessibility- might make sense, and since the JavaScript libraries already have their own attributes, they might end up using jquery-, prototype-, etc.. Might we then see a claim that, because there's no colon, this actually isn't a namespacing mechanism? It's all starting to look very familiar.... If HTML5 is about formalizing existing uses, then they should allow extraneous attributes to validate, end of story. What they do about xml namespaces is debatable, but this introduction of data- is entirely artificial and backed by no existing web uses. -Ben
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