- From: Doug Schepers <schepers@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 05 May 2011 17:10:49 -0400
- To: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- CC: "Frost, Jon A." <frostjo@missouri.edu>, "www-svg@w3.org" <www-svg@w3.org>
Hi, Ian- Ian Hickson wrote (on 5/5/11 2:56 PM): > On Wed, 4 May 2011, Doug Schepers wrote: >> >> The Parameter functionality is very different from Microdata (of which @data-* >> attributes are part). > > The microdata features are unrelated to the data-* feature. The microdata > attributes all start with "item" (itemprop, itemtype, itemscope, itemid, > itemref). Okay... seems like I conflated the two features. Thanks. >> while @data- is just a way of adding metadata > > data-*="" is just a place for storing declarative data for scripts, it's > not really for metadata. I'd argue that data-*="" is (or can be) still a kind of metadata, but I agree that depends on how it's used in practice. Regards- -Doug Schepers W3C Team Contact, SVG, WebApps, and Web Events WGs
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