[whatwg] Prevent abuse of data-*

2010-03-18 Thread Roger Hågensen
On 2010-03-17 17:28, Jonas Sicking wrote: / 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

Re: [whatwg] Prevent abuse of data-*

2010-03-18 Thread Simon Pieters
On Thu, 18 Mar 2010 01:03:33 +0100, Ian Hickson i...@hixie.ch wrote: On Mon, 22 Feb 2010, Kornel Lesi�~Dski wrote: 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

Re: [whatwg] Prevent abuse of data-*

2010-03-18 Thread Henri Sivonen
Jonas Sicking jo...@sicking.cc wrote: 2010/3/17 Ian Hickson i...@hixie.ch: It's not a bad idea... Unfortunately data-* is already being used quite a lot and has been widely advertised, so we have to be careful with this. Anyone else have an opinion on this? I don't feel strongly that

Re: [whatwg] Prevent abuse of data-*

2010-03-18 Thread Jonas Sicking
On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 6:41 AM, Henri Sivonen hsivo...@iki.fi wrote: Jonas Sicking jo...@sicking.cc wrote: 2010/3/17 Ian Hickson i...@hixie.ch: It's not a bad idea... Unfortunately data-* is already being used quite a lot and has been widely advertised, so we have to be careful with this.

Re: [whatwg] Prevent abuse of data-*

2010-03-17 Thread Ian Hickson
On Mon, 22 Feb 2010, Kornel Lesi�~Dski wrote: 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.

Re: [whatwg] Prevent abuse of data-*

2010-03-17 Thread Jonas Sicking
2010/3/17 Ian Hickson i...@hixie.ch: On Mon, 22 Feb 2010, Kornel LesiÅ~Dski wrote: 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

[whatwg] Prevent abuse of data-*

2010-02-22 Thread Kornel Lesiński
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. -- regards, Kornel Lesiński