- From: Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2009 12:31:49 -0600
- To: www-tag@w3.org
Just posted to the TAG blog:
http://www.w3.org/blog/tag/
http://www.w3.org/QA/2009/02/palm_webos_approach_to_html_ex.html
Palm webOS approach to HTML extensibility: x-mojo-*
I got pretty excited about the iPhone, and even more about the openness
of Android and the G1, and then I learn that the Palm Pre developer
platform is basically just the open web platform: HTML, CSS, and
JavaScript.
Just after the TAG declared victory on how to build The Self-Describing
Web with URI-based Extensibility and the mobile buzz at Web Directions
North, I get some details on how Palm is building on the open web
platform:
A widget is declared within your HTML as an empty div with an
x-mojo-element attribute.
<div x-mojo-element="ToggleButton" id="my-toggle"></div>
Oh great; x- tokens... aren't those passe by now?
The suggestion in the HTML 5 draft is data-* attributes. The ARIA draft
suggests @role. The Palm design looks like new information for issue-41,
Decentralized-extensibility, in the HTML WG.
Anybody know how frozen the Palm design is? Or if they looked at ARIA,
data-* or URI-based namespaces?
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Dan Connolly, W3C http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/
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