"HTML attribute" as a term

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"HTML attribute" as a term #495

Open martinthomson opened 3 weeks ago

martinthomson commented 3 weeks ago

On #485, a number of other alternatives were floated.

DOM attribute
content attribute
element attribute
markup attribute

The point being that in some of the cases, we are not talking exclusively about HTML, but also SVG, MathML, and other syntaxes.

Personally, I don't think that any of the above would be an improvement in the cases that I can see this being used, but we thought it would be worth considering this.

annevk commented 3 weeks ago

The only term with a defined meaning from these in the standards world is "content attribute". I guess you can define one of these as well, but generally I'd prefer we reuse the same terms. (Renaming "content attribute" is on the table too I guess, if people really dislike it.)