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I think he/she's going after the idea of polluting one's view with all sorts of non-standard markup invokes a gag reflex. I'm amazed that Google chose to adopt

I think he/she's going after the idea of polluting one's view with all sorts of non-standard markup invokes a gag reflex. I'm amazed that Google chose to adopt such an ugly non-standard idea. HTML5 does allow for data attributes, why on earth did Angular choose to ignore those? "ng-repeat", "ng-pooponastick" etc??? Most templating languages to not violate the actual HTML attributes to exploit their purposes. I'm not hating on Angular.js yet as I've yet to use it in a real project. But I'd hate to have to migrate a project from Angular to a more pure template.

WickyNilliams 13y ago
You can use data-* attributes in angular if you're not keen on invalid attributes e.g. data-ng-repeat. It used to be slightly broken, but I've been led to believe this is no longer the case. As for making up your own elements as angular allows you to do, I think this is actually quite forward thinking. This is basically what the ShadowDOM[0] is all about, and when becomes common place you won't bat an eyelid seeing <NoBleachsSuperTag> in HTML. [0] http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/webcomponents/shadowdom/ http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/webcomponents/shadowd...
metaphorm 13y ago
angular allows you to prefix any html directive with "data-" to make it fully compliant with the html5 spec. you can certainly use <li class="some_style_class" data-ng-repeat="comment in comments"> in your angular templates and have it pass a validator for html5 and still work with angular.