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Section: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/complete.html#the-basic-syntax Comment: itemscope is long and not very descriptive. how about just scope and prop. Posted from: 68.32.157.249
There are several "item..." attributes which form the set of attributes used for microdata. It would not be obvious that an attribute named "scope" belongs to that set. "prop" would be even worse because the "property" attribute is used by RDFa.
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