19.02.2012, 05:24, "Lea Verou" <leaverou@gmail.com>: > On 18/2/12 00:39, Marat Tanalin | tanalin.com wrote: > >> šI think var- prefix is MUCH more intuitive, appropriate and preferable for CSS variables than data-. Using data- prefix for CSS-variables would be both confusing for authors and harmful for ability to add possible future features like described by Brian (<div data-foo="something"> š=> šdiv{property: data(foo);}). > > Brian didn't describe a new feature, he just said that authors may > confuse data() with something of the sort. Such a feature would be > completely redundant, as it offers little benefit (if any) over > attr(data-foo). Main concern is confuseability of course. As for the possible future data-attr-access CSS-feature though, with the same result we could say that we don't need element.dataset since we could just use element.getAttribute('data-foo').Received on Sunday, 19 February 2012 17:46:00 UTC
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