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<span custom-my-thing="50" custom-my-other-thing="4,5,1,2">bla bla</span>
<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-".)
(rejected because "custom-" is not as good a prefix as "data-".)
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If "custom" was site-specific, then wouldn't, e.g. "markbaker-my-thing" be better than a global "data-my-thing"?  Otherwise there's a pretty good chance of collisions.  Much more author friendly than namespaces.  "data-" suggests that a central registry/wiki would be required to avoid collision.
If "custom" was site-specific, then wouldn't, e.g. "markbaker-my-thing" be better than a global "data-my-thing"?  Otherwise there's a pretty good chance of collisions.  Much more author friendly than namespaces.  "data-" suggests that a central registry/wiki would be required to avoid collision.
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Revision as of 01:08, 9 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-".)

If "custom" was site-specific, then wouldn't, e.g. "markbaker-my-thing" be better than a global "data-my-thing"? Otherwise there's a pretty good chance of collisions. Much more author friendly than namespaces. "data-" suggests that a central registry/wiki would be required to avoid collision.