Palm webOS approach to HTML extensibility: x-mojo-*
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Dan Connolly
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I got pretty excited about the iPhone, and even more about the openness of Android and the G1, and then I learn that the Palm Pre developer platform is basically just the open web platform: HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
Just after the mobile buzz at Web Directions North and the TAG declared victory on how to build The Self-Describing Web with URI-based Extensibility , I get some details on how Palm is building on the open web platform:
A widget is declared within your HTML as an empty div with an x-mojo-element attribute.
<div x-mojo-element="ToggleButton" id="my-toggle"></div>
Oh great; x- tokens... aren't those passe by now?
The suggestion in the HTML 5 draft is data-* attributes. The ARIA draft suggests @role. The Palm design looks like new information for issue-41, Decentralized-extensibility, in the HTML WG.
Anybody know how frozen the Palm design is? Or if they looked at ARIA, data-* or URI-based namespaces?
I have been taking my lessons on html. it has been so exciting that i have been teaching my self using your notes. thank you so much
Your "issue 41" link is broken (it has an extra http:// )
Thank you. Broken link fixed now.