Re: [whatwg] Prevent abuse of data-*

2010-03-18 Thread Jonas Sicking
On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 6:41 AM, Henri Sivonen wrote: > "Jonas Sicking" wrote: >> 2010/3/17 Ian Hickson : >> > 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 opin

Re: [whatwg] Prevent abuse of data-*

2010-03-18 Thread Henri Sivonen
"Jonas Sicking" wrote: > 2010/3/17 Ian Hickson : > > 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 either name is bet

Re: [whatwg] Prevent abuse of data-*

2010-03-18 Thread Simon Pieters
On Thu, 18 Mar 2010 01:03:33 +0100, Ian Hickson 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 later someon

[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-lik

Re: [whatwg] Prevent abuse of data-*

2010-03-17 Thread Jonas Sicking
2010/3/17 Ian Hickson : > 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 basin

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 o

[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