Rob Sayre wrote:
On 3/1/09 1:45 PM, Dan Brickley wrote:
"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.
These attributes are not intended for use by software that is
independent of the site that uses the attributes."
Unless the site that uses the attributes is the entire Web, I can't
see how this bit of HTML5 addresses such a scenario...
Do you mean it won't work technically, or that it would be using the
attributes in a way that's unintended? RDFa already uses XML Namespaces
Indeed. The HTML5 data-* attributes have been defined in a way to
explicitly disallow distributed extensibility.
and HTML in ways that those specifications don't cover. What's different
about my example?
You are right about that -- but if following the specs isn't necessary,
I'd recommend instead just to ignore validity and define new attributes
instead.
BR, Julian
