- From: Danny Ayers <danny.ayers@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2008 10:13:43 +0200
- To: "Bijan Parsia" <bparsia@cs.man.ac.uk>
- Cc: public-grddl-comments@w3.org, "Ian Hickson" <ian@hixie.ch>
2008/8/26 Bijan Parsia <bparsia@cs.man.ac.uk>: > On Aug 26, 2008, at 5:02 AM, Booth, David (HP Software - Boston) wrote: > >>> From: Bijan Parsia >>> [ . . . ] >>> Encouraging people to dereference (or to >>> write software that dereferences) things like namespaces has turned >>> out not to be such a great idea and, arguably, isn't necessary or >>> helpful. >> >> I completely disagree. > > Oi! Are you and Danny completely not paying attention? I didn't reply to set > up a debate but to correct a misimpression, to wit, that the "RDF community" > has consensus on the GRDDL design. So, all this other stuff is just > *irrelevant*. Er, scrollback. >> Dereferencing things like namespaces may not be useful or helpful to >> *you*, but that does not mean it is not useful or helpful to others. > > Esp. when it is of this low quality. I didn't say it was not useful or > helpful to *ME*, I said it was not, on balance, useful and helpful to > encourage people to do this, esp. systematically. Lack of utility to me, or > utility to *SOMEONE*, doesn't even start to refute this point of view. > > I suspect we should stop CCing Ian (or just stop). As long as Ian is the benevolent dictator of HTML, he should know a decent sample of opinion. Cheers, Danny. -- http://dannyayers.com ~ http://blogs.talis.com/nodalities/this_weeks_semantic_web/
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