[whatwg] Allowed characters in attribute names

[Anne van Kesteren]

On Wed, 13 Jun 2007 12:31:13 +0200, Thomas Broyer <t.broyer at gmail.com>  
wrote:
>> What if there is plugin content that uses non-ASCII characters as
>> parameters (and you didn't author it), should it be disallowed to author
>> HTML content aimed at that plugin content?
>
> You just won't be able to use it with <embed> and be forced to use
> <object>. Given that <embed> is deprecated, that's not a big deal.

<embed> is not deprecated. It's the dedicated element for plugin content.  
In fact, no element or attribute is deprecated in HTML5. They are either  
part of the language or not.


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