Re: [whatwg] Prevent abuse of data-*
On Thu, 18 Mar 2010 01:03:33 +0100, Ian Hickson i...@hixie.ch wrote: On Mon, 22 Feb 2010, Kornel Lesi�~Dski wrote: I'm wondering if data-* attributes should be renamed to priv-* to make it clearer that it's page's _private_ data. data- is such a nice generic prefix that I'm afraid sooner or later someone will start basing microformats-like markup on that. It's not a bad idea... Unfortunately data-* is already being used quite a lot and has been widely advertised, so we have to be careful with this. Anyone else have an opinion on this? I think we should keep data- as is. People have started to use it, we would waste their time by renaming it. -- Simon Pieters Opera Software
Re: [whatwg] Prevent abuse of data-*
Jonas Sicking jo...@sicking.cc wrote: 2010/3/17 Ian Hickson i...@hixie.ch: It's not a bad idea... Unfortunately data-* is already being used quite a lot and has been widely advertised, so we have to be careful with this. Anyone else have an opinion on this? I don't feel strongly that either name is better. Though I would not that priv- doesn't make things much clearer since it's totally undefined who it's private to. Given that priv-* isn't clearly better, I think it would be better not to annoy early adopters of data-* with a name change. -- Henri Sivonen hsivo...@iki.fi http://hsivonen.iki.fi/
Re: [whatwg] Prevent abuse of data-*
On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 6:41 AM, Henri Sivonen hsivo...@iki.fi wrote: Jonas Sicking jo...@sicking.cc wrote: 2010/3/17 Ian Hickson i...@hixie.ch: It's not a bad idea... Unfortunately data-* is already being used quite a lot and has been widely advertised, so we have to be careful with this. Anyone else have an opinion on this? I don't feel strongly that either name is better. Though I would not that priv- doesn't make things much clearer since it's totally undefined who it's private to. Given that priv-* isn't clearly better, I think it would be better not to annoy early adopters of data-* with a name change. Agreed. / Jonas
Re: [whatwg] Prevent abuse of data-*
On Mon, 22 Feb 2010, Kornel Lesi�~Dski wrote: I'm wondering if data-* attributes should be renamed to priv-* to make it clearer that it's page's _private_ data. data- is such a nice generic prefix that I'm afraid sooner or later someone will start basing microformats-like markup on that. It's not a bad idea... Unfortunately data-* is already being used quite a lot and has been widely advertised, so we have to be careful with this. Anyone else have an opinion on this? -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
Re: [whatwg] Prevent abuse of data-*
2010/3/17 Ian Hickson i...@hixie.ch: On Mon, 22 Feb 2010, Kornel LesiÅ~Dski wrote: I'm wondering if data-* attributes should be renamed to priv-* to make it clearer that it's page's _private_ data. data- is such a nice generic prefix that I'm afraid sooner or later someone will start basing microformats-like markup on that. It's not a bad idea... Unfortunately data-* is already being used quite a lot and has been widely advertised, so we have to be careful with this. Anyone else have an opinion on this? I don't feel strongly that either name is better. Though I would not that priv- doesn't make things much clearer since it's totally undefined who it's private to. / Jonas
