[webcomponents] bug-assist should use data-* attributes instead of <meta name> (bugzilla: 21916) (#229)

Title: bug-assist should use data-* attributes instead of <meta name> (bugzilla: 21916)

Migrated from: https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=21916

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*Simon Pieters* wrote on 2013-05-02 22:45:49 +0000.

\<meta name=bug.foo\> is not valid HTML without registring bug.foo. Since these fields are only intended to be read by the script, it seems more appropriate to use data-* attributes (e.g. on the root element or the script element).

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*Robin Berjon* wrote on 2013-06-05 22:31:43 +0000.

We have that: http://www.w3.org/TR/html51/bug-assist.js

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*Dominic Cooney* wrote on 2013-06-06 06:06:21 +0000.

I have updated the Explainer in \<https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/webcomponents/rev/3f951ae02c0a\>

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*Philip Jägenstedt* wrote on 2014-01-26 17:28:52 +0000.

What's the canonical source for bug-assist.js? I want to get rid of the \<meta\> stuff in WebVTT, and http://w3c.github.io/webcomponents/explainer/bug-assist.js is what I can find.

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*Dimitri Glazkov* wrote on 2014-01-27 05:14:14 +0000.

(In reply to Philip Jägenstedt from comment #3)
> What's the canonical source for bug-assist.js? I want to get rid of the
> \<meta\> stuff in WebVTT, and
> http://w3c.github.io/webcomponents/explainer/bug-assist.js is what I can
> find.

https://github.com/w3c/webcomponents/blob/gh-pages/assets/scripts/spec-assist.js

:)

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*Philip Jägenstedt* wrote on 2014-01-27 07:18:30 +0000.

(In reply to Dimitri Glazkov from comment #4)
> (In reply to Philip Jägenstedt from comment #3)
> > What's the canonical source for bug-assist.js? I want to get rid of the
> > \<meta\> stuff in WebVTT, and
> > http://w3c.github.io/webcomponents/explainer/bug-assist.js is what I can
> > find.
> 
> https://github.com/w3c/webcomponents/blob/gh-pages/assets/scripts/spec-
> assist.js
> 
> :)

That's spec-assist.js, but the bug-assist.js in the same place still relies on \<meta\>, so I guess the canonical source is not what I'm looking for :/

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*Robin Berjon* wrote on 2014-01-27 08:49:32 +0000.

(In reply to Philip Jägenstedt from comment #5)
> (In reply to Dimitri Glazkov from comment #4)
> > (In reply to Philip Jägenstedt from comment #3)
> > > What's the canonical source for bug-assist.js? I want to get rid of the
> > > \<meta\> stuff in WebVTT, and
> > > http://w3c.github.io/webcomponents/explainer/bug-assist.js is what I can
> > > find.
> > 
> > https://github.com/w3c/webcomponents/blob/gh-pages/assets/scripts/spec-
> > assist.js
> > 
> > :)
> 
> That's spec-assist.js, but the bug-assist.js in the same place still relies
> on \<meta\>, so I guess the canonical source is not what I'm looking for :/

The one in:

    https://github.com/w3c/html/tree/master/js

uses data-*. You can steal it from there. There is currently no canonical version that I know of, people just copy it. I plan to incorporate the functionality into:

    https://github.com/darobin/specstatic

but at this point that's on standby until I have a day or two's time to hack.

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*Philip Jägenstedt* wrote on 2014-01-27 08:57:30 +0000.

OK, thanks Robin!

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