- From: Dan Brickley <danbri@danbri.org>
- Date: Sun, 01 Mar 2009 20:09:04 +0100
- To: Rob Sayre <rsayre@mozilla.com>
- CC: Sam Ruby <rubys@intertwingly.net>, Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>, Ben Adida <ben@adida.net>, Manu Sporny <msporny@digitalbazaar.com>, "www-tag@w3.org WG" <www-tag@w3.org>, HTMLWG WG <public-html@w3.org>, RDFa mailing list <public-rdf-in-xhtml-tf@w3.org>, public-xhtml2@w3.org
On 1/3/09 19:49, Rob Sayre wrote: > On 3/1/09 1:45 PM, Dan Brickley wrote: >> >> "Custom data attributes are intended to store custom data private to >> the page or application, for which there are no more appropriate >> attributes or elements. >> >> These attributes are not intended for use by software that is >> independent of the site that uses the attributes." >> >> Unless the site that uses the attributes is the entire Web, I can't >> see how this bit of HTML5 addresses such a scenario... > > Do you mean it won't work technically, or that it would be using the > attributes in a way that's unintended? RDFa already uses XML Namespaces > and HTML in ways that those specifications don't cover. What's different > about my example? This option has been bounced around a few times on the HTML and WHATWG lists. The general consensus seemed to be that this wasn't what data- attributes were intended for. Of course the HTML5 spec is still in flux, and they could be redefined to do this kind of thing too. Whether that would be a good idea, I don't know. cheers, Dan
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