- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 15:19:19 +0200
James Graham wrote: >> As Anne and Julian have pointed out, that's not a use of data-* >> attributes permitted by the spec. > > FWIW I think we have a problem in that multiple independent people have > seen data-* and assumed they are for externally readable metadata. If Right. That is a problem. > the bad effects of people using it for that purpose are worse than the > usefulness of the feature, we need to consider removing the feature. If > the bad effects are not so bad we need to consider legitimizing this as > it is clearly something that it is clear will happen irrespective of > what the spec says. I think it indicates that many people are looking for this feature. Introducing something like RDFa (or something similar) would end that confusion. BR, Julian
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