[Bug 7670] Use of prefixes is too complicated for a Web technology

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=7670





--- Comment #30 from Ben Adida <ben@adida.net>  2009-09-21 18:31:06 ---
(In reply to comment #29)
> Have you actually tested that Yahoo! and Google process input (conforming and
> obvious, conforming but non-obvious, non-confoming, etc.) in a uniform way and
> in a way that resembles compliance to RDFa albeit in the wrong MIME type? The
> announcement itself doesn't show that two implementors implemented RDFa
> interoperably and in compliance with the spec.

You're conflating two very different types of users: HTML authors who *write*
RDFa, and tool builders who *parse* RDFa.

Google and Yahoo, who have historically shown that they care deeply about
making things easy for web publishers and users, are both asking HTML authors
to take on the "full complexity" of prefixes, both by showing explicit examples
of this prefix usage and by referencing the RDFa spec in their explanations.

Maybe Google's implementation needs work, as I'm sure Mozilla's does for a
number of HTML5 features. But that's hardly relevant to the direction that
Google and Yahoo are giving web publishers, and that direction includes
prefixes.

-Ben


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