[Geany] HTML5 attributes

[Lex Trotman]

On 26 October 2010 10:16, Ross McKay <rosko at zeta.org.au> wrote:
> Jason Oster wrote:
>
>>Don't forget data-* (the attribute for providing user-specified data to
>>a DOM node.  It can be named anything, hence the *)  This has been a bit
>>of a thorn in my side, since Geany thinks all of my data-* tags are
>>invalid; they get highlighted red.
>
> Yeah, but it's the * that Geany can't handle. Your * will likely be
> different to my *, unless we happen to be following the same
> microformats.
>
> You can add your data-* attributes to your local customisation of
> filetypes.xml in ~/.config/geany/filedefs if you want to make that red
> go away.
>
> What would be nice in Geany is some way to customise the filedefs in an
> additive way, rather than having to respecify the whole keyword line
> just to add a few new attributes. Or perhaps, this new HTML5/XHTML aware
> plugin we spoke about in the previous HTML5 thread could handle data-*
> and aria-* especially.

Recognising data-* as legal needs to be added to the Scintilla lexer.
Perhaps creating an HTML5 one.  You could discuss it with the
Scintilla ML http://groups.google.com/group/scintilla-interest

Cheers
Lex

>
> Either way, the stock distro can't really do anything with data-* yet.
> This is different to aria-* which we could add easily, I guess, if
> someone (else) wants to collect them all into a string:
>
> http://www.w3.org/WAI/PF/aria/states_and_properties#state_prop_def
> --
> Ross McKay, Toronto, NSW Australia
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