Focas, Grant wrote:
Yes, but what purpose - if any - is served by hiding a non-html standard attribute. It's still there isn't it? I suspect there may be a reason to do this beyond the warm inner glow of validation. But I can't see it. At the moment it feels like merely tricking the validator in order to fudge a validation.
If you use javascript to generate new elements/tags, then yes, I'd completely agree that all you're doing is tricking the validator. However, when it comes to adding a single attribute, and particularly doing it not for presentational purposes (e.g. we're not sticking in something like vmargin to an image), but for programmatical ones, I'd say it's acceptable - particularly as you're forced to do it because of a broken browser implementation requiring authors to use invalid markup to prevent a certain behaviour.
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