- From: Garrett Smith <dhtmlkitchen@gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2008 07:46:57 -0800
On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 6:32 AM, Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage at gmail.com> wrote: >> On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 1:40 AM, Garrett Smith <dhtmlkitchen at gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 10:31 AM, <html at nczonline.net> wrote: >>> We then, as developers, could use that attribute as we see fit and >>> the document would still validate (for people who care about such >>> things). >> >> Are people who care about things are the parenthetical afterthought? >> >> Just curious: What are you expecting your invalid html and custom >> attributes to do? > > Control scripts, usually. This is a valid and common use-case that > currently has to hack around things, sometimes by embedding this data > in the class attribute. The data-* attribute family is explicitly > designed for this. > You're not Nicholas. We don't know if that is what Nicholas expects his HTML to do or if he is expecting something else. In absence of an example, I can't do much more than guess. I cannot expect your assumptions to be correct. You've not stated how creating invalid HTML can "control scripts". Having an interest in scripting, I would like to know how this works. Garrett > ~TJ >
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