html5-profile-issues

These are externally raised issues about the HTML5 Profile Attribute with broadly varying degrees of merit. Thus some issues are REJECTED for a number of obvious reasons (but still documented here in case they are re-raised), and others contain longer discussions. Some issues may be ACCEPTED and perhaps cause changes or improved explanations in the spec.

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issues

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2010

• Copyright statement - 2010-02-19

This is a request for clarification.

This document is in the public domain. If the W3C HTML Working Group accepts to take on the proposal as a deliverable, should contributions from the Working Group participants expected to be in the public domain as well, or can they remain under the W3C Document license? As owner of ACTION-29 in the WG, I'm interested in gathering rationals in both approaches. -PLH.

open issue!

2010-02-20 
raised by Krzysztof Maczyński

• Should sections 2 and 3 be normative?

The message announcing the draft indicates that sections 2 (“listing known HTML 4.01 errata regarding the profile attribute on the head element”) and 3 (“describing how this specification could be applied to both previous versions of HTML and XHTML, and other markup languages”) would be informative. I propose that the HTML WG consider making them normative.

• • other relevant messages

open issue!

2010-02-21 
raised by LHS

• data-foo="" should be in (subsequent) scope of @profile. An <element class="classname"> that is linked to a profile should be treated as an element, for which it should be possible to specify optional or required data-foo attributes. Example: <element class="classname" data-profileprefix-attribute="value"></element> In other words, it should be possible to specify required/optional data-foo="" attributes together with specific element@class combinations.

Related info and messages

My message to the HTMLwg leading up to this issue entry,

Message from Toby Inkster in support of a html5 profile spec,

The original profile based distributed extensibility idea of Toby Inkster,

data-foo="" in HTML5, including the space ship element example: <div class="spaceship" data-ship-id="92432" data-weapons="laser 2" [ etc ]

For scripting libraries, then HTML5 recommends using a prefix (data-prefx-attribute="" to avoid clashes and should be considered for the HTML5 profile specification also.

open issue!

2010-02-21 
raised by LHS

• ARIA attributes and role="" should be in (subsequent) scope of @profile. An <element class="classname"> that is linked to a profile should be treated as an element, for which it should be possible to specify recommended ARIA and role attribtues. Example: <element class="classname" role="button"></element>

Related info and messages

My message to the HTMLwg leading up to this issue entry,

Question from Joe D Williams (comment to Toby Inksters Distributed Extensibility proposal

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