- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2011 23:24:07 +0000 (UTC)
On Wed, 1 Dec 2010, Anne van Kesteren wrote: > On Wed, 01 Dec 2010 00:27:23 +0100, Ian Hickson <ian at hixie.ch> wrote: > > An update since this topic was discussed on this list before: > > > > I updated the vendor-specific syntax a while back to be > > x-vendor-foo="" for content attributes, and .vendorFoo for IDL > > members; attributes starting with an underscore are also reserved but > > their use is not encouraged. > > If we do .vendorFoo shouldn't we just do vendor-foo=""? "opera", "moz", > "webkit", "ms" are unique enough and HTML attributes generally do not > use hyphens anyway. (And yes, there will be some more vendors, etc. But > over the years there have not been many extensions at all so this is all > rather manageable.) I think we want a prefix, in general. The problem is that it is not aesthetically pleasing to have a prefix for IDL attributes, unlike content attributes where it doesn't look anywhere near as bad. Hence where we are now, which seems fine. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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