- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Sun, 24 Aug 2008 22:10:26 +0200
Tab Atkins Jr. wrote: > The point was made before that html5 already has extensive extension > mechanisms in place that can address the particular needs of various > communities without requiring it to be written explicitly into the > spec. I know you've said that your team has reviewed the extension > mechanisms and found them lacking, but could you explain why it is > insufficient to use @data-rdf-property, @data-rdf-about, etc.? I ask > about these specifically because my mail timestamps show that the > @data-* class of attributes was introduced April 10th of this year, > while the ccRel submission is dated May 1st, and thus it's very likely > that these were impossible to consider during your review of existing > extension mechanisms. > ... "Custom data attributes are intended to store custom data private to the page or application, for which there are no more appropriate attributes or elements." -- <http://www.w3.org/html/wg/html5/#custom> BR, Julian
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