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<span data-thing="50" data-doohickey="4,5,1,2">bla bla</span> | <span data-thing="50" data-doohickey="4,5,1,2">bla bla</span> | ||
if (span. | if (span.dataSet.thing > 10) { ... } | ||
span. | span.dataSet.doohickey = '1,2,3,4'; | ||
</pre> | </pre> | ||
Revision as of 00:23, 5 April 2008
Here are some ideas for how to include custom data in HTML documents.
Candidates
<span data-thing="50" data-doohickey="4,5,1,2">bla bla</span>
if (span.dataSet.thing > 10) { ... }
span.dataSet.doohickey = '1,2,3,4';
Rejected
<span custom:my-thing="50" custom:my-other-thing="4,5,1,2">bla bla</span> (rejected because colons have special meaning in XML and so this would lead to the HTML and XML DOM representations differing, which violates our intent to keep the DOM accessors serialisation-agnostic.)
<span><param name=my-thing value="50"><param name=my-other-thing value="4,5,1,2">bla bla</span> (rejected because it's so verbose that people would likely just do what they do now, violating the spec, instead of using it.)
<span custom-my-thing="50" custom-my-other-thing="4,5,1,2">bla bla</span> (rejected because "custom-" is not as good a prefix as "data-".)