On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 5:07 PM, Ryosuke Niwa <rniwa@apple.com> wrote: > There is a difference in people not caring about forward compatibility and > polluting the global namespace, and not providing a mechanism to do it > right in the first place. > You'll always need to be able to declare attributes that the browser doesn't know about, for polyfills. > If we're encouraging authors to define their own attributes, then we > should provide a mechanism or a guideline to do so in a forward compatible > manner. > Allowing isn't necessarily encouraging, and we do have a guideline: use data-*. Be careful of falling into the trap of adding complexity to fix something that isn't actually a serious problem... -- Glenn Maynard
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