[whatwg] Prevent abuse of data-*

Kornel Lesiński kornel at geekhood.net
Mon Feb 22 04:45:41 PST 2010


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.

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regards, Kornel Lesiński





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