well... i'm new to this group and correct me if i'm wrong, but... by using the acronym HTML does that include XHTML?
if so than XHTML was designed to be eXtendable by third parties using both own tags and attributes. And me myself use this advantage of this, when eg. I have a small code that deals with specific attribute pairs on different built-in tags, and implement some dynamism independently of the page itself, using prototype.js' power. (Though i have to admit, that I'm guilty of placing these attributes into the xhtml namespace instead of my own one, but i'm already working on it. :) ) If your terms of HTML does not include XHTML ( as i think the situation is ), i haven't gone through the HTML5 specification, but in the past though i could use my own attributes, i always had to be aware of not using special ones ( and that's not so hard to achieve ) so all in all, i don't see a point why it should be avoided to use my own attributes. Anthyon RobG írta: > On May 15, 4:02�pm, "Justin Perkins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 12:22 AM, RobG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > It is not a good idea to use custom attributes on HTML elements, the > > > class attribute can provide similar functionality. > > > > With all do respect, why? I have been using custom attributes for a > > very long time and have never seen one single negative side effect. > > User agents should ignore unrecognised attributes, but as the OP > discovered, their use can create problems in other ways. In this > case, the addition of certain attribute names has interfered with > scripts, but they could just as easily cause problems by being > recognised by a particular browser as something other than what was > intended. IE in particular has a heap of custom attributes. > > The possibility of issues can be mitigated using a pseudo-namespace > (e.g. adding a prefix to all such attributes), however it can be > reduced to zero by using standard attributes such as class. > > > -- > Rob --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Spinoffs" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-spinoffs@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-spinoffs?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
