- From: David Singer <singer@apple.com>
- Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2013 12:01:39 +0800
- To: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Cc: Glenn Maynard <glenn@zewt.org>, Silvia Pfeiffer <silviapfeiffer1@gmail.com>, David Ronca <dronca@netflix.com>, "public-texttracks@w3.org" <public-texttracks@w3.org>
On Apr 13, 2013, at 14:58 , Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> wrote: > On Fri, 12 Apr 2013, David Singer wrote: >> >> Well, I think we should have a formal system for un-registered >> meta-data. > > We do, it's called a comment. You can put any proprietary data you want > there, and other UAs will ignore it. well, I think that there is a difference between user-comments (free form) and machine-readable attribute-value pairs. also, if we have places for 1) pre-defined attribute-value pairs 2) comments it's not obvious to me that (3) externally-defined, experimental, or other attribute-value pairs are better in the second than the first; they seem closer to the first, to me. reserving X- attribute names for experiments and so on is a pretty time-honored tradition, as well. nonetheless, I will bear your opinions in mind … David Singer Multimedia and Software Standards, Apple Inc.
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