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by Touche 3952 days ago
It's illegal. Go to your console and type el.setAttribute("(foo)", "bar") and see what happens.
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joshuacc 3952 days ago
No it is not. See the discussion here: https://github.com/angular/angular/issues/133
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Touche 3951 days ago
What there contradicts what I said? I'm aware of innerHTML hacks that make it possible to work around but those are not valid attribute names. I'm not even against the syntax; i like it, but that doesn't change the fact that it is invalid html.
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sangnoir 3951 days ago
Parent quotes the W3 Spec to prove that it's legal, and your response is "it's illegal because $BROWSER say's so"?

I trust the spec more than an implementation.

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Touche 3951 days ago
The parent didn't quote the spec, they quoted a GitHub issue with 71 participants. If you want to post a link to the spec text please do.

If true I'm not sure it matters if every browser throws an exception.

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joshuacc 3951 days ago
User pfooti's comment referenced the specification[1]. You said that a browsers' implementation of the DOM API proves that it is illegal. I then linked to an issue with a detailed discussion of how the DOM API isn't consistent with itself, much less the HTML specification.

[1]:http://www.w3.org/TR/html-markup/syntax.html#syntax-attribut...

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