> On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 1:40 AM, Garrett Smith <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 10:31 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: >> We then, as developers, could use that attribute as we see fit and >> the document would still validate (for people who care about such >> things). > > Are people who care about things are the parenthetical afterthought? > > Just curious: What are you expecting your invalid html and custom > attributes to do?
Control scripts, usually. This is a valid and common use-case that currently has to hack around things, sometimes by embedding this data in the class attribute. The data-* attribute family is explicitly designed for this. ~TJ
