[svgwg] Standardised `label` attribute? (#1051)

jnqnfe has just created a new issue for https://github.com/w3c/svgwg:

== Standardised `label` attribute? ==
Inkscape uses a custom `inkscape:label` element attribute to capture friendly labels that can be set and displayed in the 'layers and objects' panel. I presume other editors do something similar. Would it not be nice to standardise such a `label` attribute for editors to allow for slightly cleaner/smaller markup?

(I don't think `aria-label` would be suitable for this, and Inkscape pays no attention to it (currently at least; maybe there's a bug report asking for it, I haven't looked)).

If no label is specified, Inkscape uses the ID property, but this can't support spaces.

Please view or discuss this issue at https://github.com/w3c/svgwg/issues/1051 using your GitHub account


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