- From: Mike Schinkel <w3c-lists@mikeschinkel.com>
- Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2007 21:36:05 -0400
- To: Alexander Graf <a.graf@aetherworld.org>
- CC: Murray Maloney <murray@muzmo.com>, public-html@w3.org
Alexander Graf wrote: > Visible metadata follow the DRY Principle (Wikipedia, as always, has > more). The benefit is that you > don't have to edit data in two places at the same time. Trust has its > part too. But read more on Wikipedia... That is true only part of the time. There is a good amount of potential invisible metadata that would not be duplicated in the visible HTML. For example, a <link> header that identified support for a particular set of classes and ids would not be duplicated metadata but would be invisible. -- -Mike Schinkel http://www.mikeschinkel.com/blogs/ http://www.welldesignedurls.org http://atlanta-web.org - http://t.oolicio.us "It never ceases to amaze how many people will proactively debate away attempts to improve the web..."
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