Re: [whatwg] Creative Commons Rights Expression Language

Bonner, Matt wrote:
> ...
> Well, for example, HTML5 provides the data-* attributes. Could ccREL
> use those instead?  To flip what you have said, perhaps reading/skimming
> the "extensions" sections HTML5 spec would help the ccREL advocates 
> understand how best to fit ccREL into HTML5.
> ...

No, it can't. At least not without working against it's intended use:

"Custom data attributes are intended to store custom data private to the 
page or application, for which there are no more appropriate attributes 
or elements." -- <http://www.w3.org/html/wg/html5/#custom>

BR, Julian

Received on Friday, 22 August 2008 19:21:44 UTC