[whatwg] namespaces in html5

[Anne van Kesteren]

On Mon, 18 Jul 2011 16:22:42 +0200, David Karger <karger at mit.edu> wrote:
> Another approach would be to use the catchall html5 data- prefix for  
> attributes.  We could certainly prefix all of our specialized attributes  
> with the data- prefix, which would turn those attributes valid for  
> html.  This solution is unsatisfactory for two reasons.  The first is  
> that our attributes are not data attributes----we are not using  
> microformat-oriented data attributes; rather, we are using attributes  
> that describe visualizations.  data- seems a poor choice of prefix.  The  
> second problem that concerns me is attribute collisions.  If we use an  
> attribute like data-role="view", how long will it be before an exhibit  
> author runs into a situation where a different javascript library is  
> using the same data-role attribute for a different purpose, which would  
> make the two libraries incompatible with one another?

You could use data-exhibit-* as the specification suggests. Potentially  
including the ability for the web author to override the "exhibit"  
constant.


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Anne van Kesteren
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