[whatwg] Context help in Web Forms

[Anne van Kesteren]

On Tue, 03 Jun 2008 20:51:39 +0200, Henri Sivonen <hsivonen at iki.fi> wrote:
> I don't like the idea of trying to encode the datatypes of data-*  
> attributes in a validator-sensitive way. What datatypes would a  
> validator support for data-* attributes? The HTML5 datatype library used  
> by Validator.nu already contains 41 datatypes, but people will likely  
> want to have others. The whole point of data-* is to provide a place  
> where a validator doesn't go without authors having to abuse e.g. title  
> which is a freeform but exposed to humans.

I agree.


> The foreseeable problem with data-* is, of course, that microformat-like  
> activity will happen there instead of going through the trouble of  
> getting unprefixed validator-sensitive attributes minted with community  
> review in the WHATWG and the HTML WG.

That'd be wrong as data-* does not allow implementation by UAs... Having  
said that, if we don't make it clear what the idea is that might end up  
happening in practice here and there.


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