- From: T.V Raman <raman@google.com>
- Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 16:17:54 -0700
- To: connolly@w3.org
- Cc: raman@google.com, mjs@apple.com, murray@muzmo.com, public-html@w3.org
Nothing in life is that simple, see the follow-up discussion. It's really important to ask "visible to whom?", "and the cost of making it visible to everyone". Dan Connolly writes: > On Wed, 2007-03-28 at 13:37 -0700, T.V Raman wrote: > > I like principle "use visible metadata as opposed to invisible > > metadata". > > Please connect it back with the concrete example of microformats > > --- and possibly add an additional related principle: > > > > Give authors something in return for encoding semantics. > > Yes, I think there's a relevant principle is about motivations, > costs, and benefits. I often phrase it as > > Data that isn't consumed rots. > > Stuff like <link> and <meta> has a place, but the fraud risk > is real. > > > So: author gives you semantics, you give him some default styling > > in return; consequence -- authors who want the styling give you > > semantics. > > > -- > Dan Connolly, W3C http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/ > D3C2 887B 0F92 6005 C541 0875 0F91 96DE 6E52 C29E -- Best Regards, --raman Title: Research Scientist Email: raman@google.com WWW: http://emacspeak.sf.net/raman/ Google: tv+raman GTalk: raman@google.com, tv.raman.tv@gmail.com PGP: http://emacspeak.sf.net/raman/raman-almaden.asc
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