Re: GRDDL and HTML5

On Mon, 25 Aug 2008, Julian Reschke wrote:
> Ian Hickson wrote:
> > 
> > GRDDL isn't going to work very well using the profile="" attribute if 
> > it requires something that profiles don't do.
> 
> What exactly does it require that profiles do not do?

GRDDL requires profile pages to specify how to process pages to obtain the 
actual data, in a computer-readable manner. Few (if any) profile pages for 
widely used profiles actually do this. (I have seen people go so far as to 
suggest using custom profile pages that _do_ include this information 
instead of using the correct profile="" page precisely because of this.)


> BTW, it would be really great if the microformats community would [...]
> 
> Again, if you are right, the microformats community needs to [...]

I recommend taking that up with them. I do not speak for the Microfomats 
community any more than you.

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Received on Monday, 25 August 2008 10:18:31 UTC