October 29th, 2019

Replying to a tweet from @ade_oshineye

…these attributes are not a generic extension mechanism for publicly-usable metadata.

https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/dom.html#embedding-custom-non-visible-data-with-the-data-*-attributes

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Jeremy Keith

I would like to see it done without data-* attributes. (But this isn’t about what I would like—it’s about implementing standards correctly.) HTML isn’t short of existing extension mechanisms: microdata, class, etc. adactio.com/notes/16039

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# Liked by Orde Saunders 🔟 on Tuesday, October 29th, 2019 at 2:11pm

Have you published a response to this? :