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Bug 12679 - In http://krijnhoetmer.nl/irc-logs/whatwg/20080707#l-26 you argued that most HTML attributes don't use hyphen, so for consistency cross-origin should be crossorigin
Summary: In http://krijnhoetmer.nl/irc-logs/whatwg/20080707#l-26 you argued that most ...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: LC1 HTML5 spec (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: HTML WG Bugzilla archive list
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
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Reported: 2011-05-18 09:06 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2011-08-04 05:12 UTC (History)
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Description contributor 2011-05-18 09:06:56 UTC 
Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/complete/embedded-content-1.html
Section: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#attr-img-cross-origin

Comment:
In http://krijnhoetmer.nl/irc-logs/whatwg/20080707#l-26 you argued that most
HTML attributes don't use hyphen, so for consistency cross-origin should be
crossorigin

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Comment 1 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2011-05-23 20:59:31 UTC 
With cross-origin, there are three attributes with hyphens, if we ignore data-*. If we include data-*, there's an infinite number of attributes with hyphens, so most of them do have them...

I think this is a bit bigger of a problem for element names than attribute names. But I'll change it if I'm alone in thinking it reads better with the hyphen... what do people think?

   <img src="..." alt="..." cross-origin="..." title="..." class="...">

   <img src="..." alt="..." crossorigin="..." title="..." class="...">
Comment 2 Tab Atkins Jr. 2011-05-23 21:19:26 UTC 
The two old attributes that use hyphens (http-equiv and accept-charset) are a weird legacy.  The two classes of new attributes that use hyphens (data-* and aria-*) represent an open class of attributes, and the hyphen serves a useful purpose of representing that the preceding string is a common prefix (already established by CSS as a common pattern).  Many other attributes that could potentially read better with hyphens, like formnovalidate (form-no-validate?) are hyphenless.

For consistency, let's drop the hyphen.  I don't want to have to remember any more exceptions to the no-hyphen rule than I'm already forced to.
Comment 3 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2011-05-23 21:29:10 UTC 
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Status: Accepted
Change Description: see diff given below
Rationale: Concurred with reporter's comments.
Comment 4 contributor 2011-05-23 21:29:27 UTC 
Checked in as WHATWG revision r6147.
Check-in comment: Change cross-origin='' to crossorigin='' since people don't seem to like hyphens. Poor hyphens.
http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=6146&to=6147
Comment 5 Michael[tm] Smith 2011-08-04 05:12:33 UTC 
mass-move component to LC1