- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 10:54:52 +0100
James Graham wrote: > It should, perhaps set alarm bells ringing that almost every time data-* > attributes come up, people suggest using them to publish data to the web > at large rather than as internal scripting hooks. Since the restrictions > on data-* are not machine checkable, even the majority of "standards > aware" authors are unlikely to heed them. Therefore the net effect of > the restriction will be to prevent conscientious standards bodies from > using data-* attributes in their specifications. It is quite possible > that popular technologies will arise from sources other than such > standards organisations and so use of data-* for more than just private > scripting may be inevitable. > > It is also possible that features that start off as private scripting > hooks will evolve into data publishing features. This again would lead > to the natural breaking of the restriction of data-* attributes. > > (I know I have said this before but I forget whether I posted it or just > discussed it on IRC.) Agreed. So what does this tell us about the point of view that distributed extensibility should not be supported by HTML5? Best regards, Julian
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