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https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/custom-elements.html#...

> This is used for namespacing and to ensure forward compatibility (since no elements will be added to HTML, SVG, or MathML with hyphen-containing local names going forward).

So things that work today without a dash might break in the future if <badge>, for example, becomes a standard HTML element.



Indeed. And since a lot of web is fire and forget, one day you might get a surprise.




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