bug-assist should use data-* attributes instead of <meta name> (bugzilla: 21916)

[hayatoito]

Title: bug-assist should use data-* attributes instead of (bugzilla: 21916)

Migrated from: https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=21916

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Simon Pieters wrote on 2013-05-02 22:45:49 +0000.

is not valid HTML without registring bug.foo. Since these fields are only intended to be read by the script, it seems more appropriate to use data-* attributes (e.g. on the root element or the script element).

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Robin Berjon wrote on 2013-06-05 22:31:43 +0000.

We have that: http://www.w3.org/TR/html51/bug-assist.js

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Dominic Cooney wrote on 2013-06-06 06:06:21 +0000.

I have updated the Explainer in https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/webcomponents/rev/3f951ae02c0a\

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Philip Jägenstedt wrote on 2014-01-26 17:28:52 +0000.

What's the canonical source for bug-assist.js? I want to get rid of the stuff in WebVTT, and http://w3c.github.io/webcomponents/explainer/bug-assist.js is what I can find.

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Dimitri Glazkov wrote on 2014-01-27 05:14:14 +0000.

(In reply to Philip Jägenstedt from comment #3)

What's the canonical source for bug-assist.js? I want to get rid of the
stuff in WebVTT, and
http://w3c.github.io/webcomponents/explainer/bug-assist.js is what I can
find.

https://github.com/w3c/webcomponents/blob/gh-pages/assets/scripts/spec-assist.js

:)

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Philip Jägenstedt wrote on 2014-01-27 07:18:30 +0000.

(In reply to Dimitri Glazkov from comment #4)

(In reply to Philip Jägenstedt from comment #3)

What's the canonical source for bug-assist.js? I want to get rid of the
stuff in WebVTT, and
http://w3c.github.io/webcomponents/explainer/bug-assist.js is what I can
find.

https://github.com/w3c/webcomponents/blob/gh-pages/assets/scripts/spec-
assist.js

:)

That's spec-assist.js, but the bug-assist.js in the same place still relies on , so I guess the canonical source is not what I'm looking for :/

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Robin Berjon wrote on 2014-01-27 08:49:32 +0000.

(In reply to Philip Jägenstedt from comment #5)

(In reply to Dimitri Glazkov from comment #4)

(In reply to Philip Jägenstedt from comment #3)

What's the canonical source for bug-assist.js? I want to get rid of the
stuff in WebVTT, and
http://w3c.github.io/webcomponents/explainer/bug-assist.js is what I can
find.

https://github.com/w3c/webcomponents/blob/gh-pages/assets/scripts/spec-
assist.js

:)

That's spec-assist.js, but the bug-assist.js in the same place still relies
on , so I guess the canonical source is not what I'm looking for :/

The one in:

https://github.com/w3c/html/tree/master/js

uses data-*. You can steal it from there. There is currently no canonical version that I know of, people just copy it. I plan to incorporate the functionality into:

https://github.com/darobin/specstatic

but at this point that's on standby until I have a day or two's time to hack.

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Philip Jägenstedt wrote on 2014-01-27 08:57:30 +0000.

OK, thanks Robin!

[sideshowbarker]

The experiment of having the HTML spec try to limit the valid values of meta[name] has turned out to be a (big) failure in practice. So while I have no opinion otherwise on the absolute merits of using data-* vs meta[name] in this particular case, when making any decision about it, I recommend everybody just ignore the requirements in the HTML spec on meta[name] values needing to be registered. The HTML validator no longer tries to enforce those requirements at least (because a few months ago I removed the code that was checking it).

[hayatoito]

Let me close this issue since we no longer use bug-assist.