- From: Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 15:01:47 -0500
- To: Lachlan Hunt <lachlan.hunt@lachy.id.au>
- Cc: Asbjørn Ulsberg <list@asbjorn.ulsberg.no>, Peter Krantz <peter.krantz@gmail.com>, public-html@w3.org
On Wed, 2007-09-26 at 22:38 +1000, Lachlan Hunt wrote: [...] > >> Can it be solved with RDFa which is on the agenda for > >> inclusion in HTML 5 or is there a need for both? > > No, RDFa doesn't actually solve anything. It's an over-engineered, > ivory tower spec that was developed in the hope that some "killer app" > would eventually come along in the future to save it. That's backwards! > Solutions should be developed to solve real problems in existing > applications, not theoretical problems in hypothetical applications. If you disagree, very well, but keep a respectful, civil tone. And please don't jump to the conclusions; perhaps you're unaware of use cases for RDFa, but that's hardly grounds to say that there are none. The top google hit for "RDFa use case" is a published W3C Technical Report: Use Case #1 — Basic Structured Blogging Use Case #2 — Publishing an Event - Overriding Some of the Rendered Data Use Case #3 — Content Management Metadata Use Case #4 — Self-Contained HTML Fragments Use Case #5 — Web Clipboard Use Case #6 — Semantic Wiki Use Case #7 — Augmented Browsing for Scientists Use Case #8 — Advanced Data Structures Use Case #9 — Publishing a RDF Vocabulary -- http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml-rdfa-scenarios/ -- Dan Connolly, W3C http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/
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