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[Maris Fogels <maris.fogels@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 09-11-12 11:07 PM, Tim Penhey wrote:

> This led to the realisation that I should probably use the API.  That leads to 
> another problem.  The preview_diff is an attribute of the merge proposal and is 
> exported through the API.
>
> Now there is yet another problem - how to get the API address of the merge 
> proposals.  Ideally in HTML5 we could use a data-mp attribute, but we can't in 
> HTML4 to stay valid - so probably need some revolting javascript hacks.

As an aside to your main problem, I am tempted to go with data- attributes now
regardless of the HTML4 and XHTML specs.

It works, it solves a real problem, the browsers ignore the extra attributes,
and our code will be valid in HTML5 (which is the future, now that XHTML2 is dead).


Maris

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