<div dir="ltr">On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 3:10 PM, Julian Reschke <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:julian.reschke@gmx.de">julian.reschke@gmx.de</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">Tab Atkins Jr. wrote:<br>
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The point was made before that html5 already has extensive extension mechanisms in place that can address the particular needs of various communities without requiring it to be written explicitly into the spec. I know you've said that your team has reviewed the extension mechanisms and found them lacking, but could you explain why it is insufficient to use @data-rdf-property, @data-rdf-about, etc.? I ask <br>
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> about these specifically because my mail timestamps show that the<br>
> @data-* class of attributes was introduced April 10th of this year,<br>
> while the ccRel submission is dated May 1st, and thus it's very likely<br>
> that these were impossible to consider during your review of existing<br>
> extension mechanisms.<br></div>
> ...<br>
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"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." -- <<a href="http://www.w3.org/html/wg/html5/#custom" target="_blank">http://www.w3.org/html/wg/html5/#custom</a>><br>
</blockquote></div><br>I'm confused. Are you trying to imply that my suggestion is somehow against the spec definition? If so, please accompany your quoting of the spec with an actual explanation of your point. I cannot respond to you when I essentially have to imagine your entire argument for myself first.<br>
<br>~TJ<br></div>