jQuery's combination of element storage + data attributes is rather elegant.
<div id=el data-foo=bar></div>
$('#el').data('foo') //> 'bar';
I've been thinking of implementing the same behavior in
Element.prototype.retrieve, though get('data-foo') is completely adequate.
These attributes are incredibly useful in client-side templating and
declarative JavaScript architectures.
As for the tangent on this thread ... If you're concerned about validating
XHTML, I feel bad for you.
On Jun 28, 2011, at 10:00 AM, Arieh Glazer wrote:
> So what? What does valid mean? Does it break any browser - no. Does it break
> the semantics of the page? no. Does it decrease your ability to use the
> validator to identify syntax errors? maybe - but then again - why not simply
> switch to h5? the browsers couldn't care less about your doctype (as
> documented at several different resources)
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> On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 6:40 PM, Steve Onnis <[email protected]> wrote:
> It might work but it is not valid XHTML pre HTML5
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> From: Arian Stolwijk [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Wednesday, 29 June 2011 12:50 AM
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> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [Moo] Re: Custom data attribute
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> this does even work in IE6.
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> On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 4:12 PM, Steve Onnis <[email protected]> wrote:
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> The comment was in reference to pre HTML5 as it was asked if mootools would
> support custom attributes for non HTML5 browsers
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tim Wienk [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Tuesday, 28 June 2011 11:14 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [Moo] Re: Custom data attribute
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> On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 15:03, Steve Onnis <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Keep in mind though that doing that sort of thing will invalidate your XHTML
> > unless you generate your own dtd schema and implement that
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> http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/elements.html#embedding-custom-non-visible-data-with-the-data-attributes
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> Tim Wienk, Software Developer, MooTools Developer
> E. [email protected] | W. http://tim.wienk.name
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> Arieh Glazer
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