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by weego 4152 days ago
The irony of suggesting a framework that abuses html attributes in templates to wire up massively abstracted behaviour as a response to someone tearing into the obsession of JavaScript devs with over-abstraction.

You do appear to be overly keen on pimping it, but it looks kinda unnecessary.
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juliangregorian 4152 days ago
It's not really abuse in an HTML5 paradigm, attributes are meant to be extensible and semantic.
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oneeyedpigeon 4152 days ago
Why not actually use the mechanism that html5 allows for (i.e. data-* attributes) rather than making up your own, that it doesn't?
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juliangregorian 4152 days ago
Just guessing: (1) it's not actually "data" and this provides more meaningful cues, (2) it provides a bit of namespacing so as to not step on the end developer's own data-attributes, (3) turns out that it doesn't actually break anywhere after all, as proven by many JS frameworks at this point. I tried briefly to track some standards down for you, but I know this gets discussed at length on the Angular mailing lists if you really care for the nitty gritty.
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