- From: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>
- Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2007 10:27:27 -0700
On Apr 8, 2007, at 11:12 AM, Henri Sivonen wrote: > At http://www.quirksmode.org/blog/archives/2007/04/html_5.html PPK > suggests having an attribute for storing private data for scripts. > > Currently, one can invent an attribute and it will work for > scripts. However, it will look ugly for conformance checking. Since > this is essentially a conformance definition issue as browsers > would not be required to implement anything new (assuming a new > reflecting attribute on HTMLElement is deemed unnecessary), adding > an attribute for script-private data would be rather easy. > > I think it would be worthwhile to add an attribute for script- > private data to common attributes, so that scripters who need one > and want to be conforming don't need to abuse e.g. title. The class attribute can already be used for script-private data. I think the time script authors go for made-up attributes is when they need a set of key-value pairs. Class is not so great for that, but I'm not sure any new attribute would be either, unless it provided some sort of built-in key-value parsing. Regards, Maciej
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