- From: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
- Date: Wed, 04 Jun 2008 00:00:54 +0200
On Tue, 03 Jun 2008 20:51:39 +0200, Henri Sivonen <hsivonen at iki.fi> wrote: > I don't like the idea of trying to encode the datatypes of data-* > attributes in a validator-sensitive way. What datatypes would a > validator support for data-* attributes? The HTML5 datatype library used > by Validator.nu already contains 41 datatypes, but people will likely > want to have others. The whole point of data-* is to provide a place > where a validator doesn't go without authors having to abuse e.g. title > which is a freeform but exposed to humans. I agree. > The foreseeable problem with data-* is, of course, that microformat-like > activity will happen there instead of going through the trouble of > getting unprefixed validator-sensitive attributes minted with community > review in the WHATWG and the HTML WG. That'd be wrong as data-* does not allow implementation by UAs... Having said that, if we don't make it clear what the idea is that might end up happening in practice here and there. -- Anne van Kesteren <http://annevankesteren.nl/> <http://www.opera.com/>
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