14525 2011-10-20 14:26:46 +0000 Why does the element for the attribute <track> is named 'kind' ? It should be named 'type' instead. Also, why is 'srclang' instead of just 'lang'? Try use same name for attributes in different tags to preserve keywords to minimum, then it becomes easier t 2011-10-22 11:24:05 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified HTML WG HTML5 spec unspecified Other other RESOLVED WONTFIX http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#top P3 normal --- 1 contributor ian ian lucas.sa mike philipj public-html-admin public-html-wg-issue-tracking public-html-bugzilla oldest_to_newest 58543 0 contributor 2011-10-20 14:26:46 +0000 Specification: http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/ Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#top Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#top Comment: Why does the element for the attribute <track> is named 'kind' ? It should be named 'type' instead. Also, why is 'srclang' instead of just 'lang'? Try use same name for attributes in different tags to preserve keywords to minimum, then it becomes easier to learn, remember and write code. Posted from: 212.247.162.243 User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:7.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/7.0.1 58544 1 philipj 2011-10-20 14:40:01 +0000 The type attribute in other contexts (<script>, <source>, <style>) is used for MIME types, like video/webm and such. The lang attribute is used to give the language of the content itself, not of an external resource. 58563 2 ian 2011-10-20 20:14:04 +0000 EDITOR'S RESPONSE: This is an Editor's Response to your comment. If you are satisfied with this response, please change the state of this bug to CLOSED. If you have additional information and would like the editor to reconsider, please reopen this bug. If you would like to escalate the issue to the full HTML Working Group, please add the TrackerRequest keyword to this bug, and suggest title and text for the tracker issue; or you may create a tracker issue yourself, if you are able to do so. For more details, see this document: http://dev.w3.org/html5/decision-policy/decision-policy.html Status: Rejected Change Description: no spec change Rationale: see comment 1 58642 3 lucas.sa 2011-10-21 16:02:16 +0000 Philip/Ian, I disagree with the rationale to close this bug: "The type attribute in other contexts (<script>, <source>, <style>) is used for MIME types, like video/webm and such." This is not true. For <input> and <link> tags, the type attribute has the same meaning of "kind" in <track>. In <input>, it is also an enumerated attribute as in <track>. Unless there is another reason for different wording, I think that this is a matter of inconsistent naming in the specification. 58704 4 zcorpan 2011-10-22 11:24:05 +0000 EDITOR'S RESPONSE: This is an Editor's Response to your comment. If you are satisfied with this response, please change the state of this bug to CLOSED. If you have additional information and would like the editor to reconsider, please reopen this bug. If you would like to escalate the issue to the full HTML Working Group, please add the TrackerRequest keyword to this bug, and suggest title and text for the tracker issue; or you may create a tracker issue yourself, if you are able to do so. For more details, see this document: http://dev.w3.org/html5/decision-policy/decision-policy.html Status: Rejected Change Description: no spec change Rationale: You're right that <input type> is not a MIME type (but <link type> is a MIME type). However, <track> will sit next to <source>, which has type="" and uses it for MIME type, and it would be confusing to have <track type> next to <source type> and they mean different things. We might even want to add type="" as a MIME type to <track> in the future.