On 1/3/09 19:49, 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
and HTML in ways that those specifications don't cover. What's different
about my example?
This option has been bounced around a few times on the HTML and WHATWG
lists. The general consensus seemed to be that this wasn't what data-
attributes were intended for. Of course the HTML5 spec is still in flux,
and they could be redefined to do this kind of thing too. Whether that
would be a good idea, I don't know.
cheers,
Dan
