- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Fri, 22 May 2009 07:25:14 +0000 (UTC)
- To: public-html@w3.org
There was a lot of discussion about microdata annotations in the past few months on the WHATWG list, and after a great deal of discussion, I collected the use cases that I could find in the discussion, and then tried to address them one by one. My e-mails on this topic are as follows: Getting data out of poorly written Web pages http://lists.whatwg.org/htdig.cgi/whatwg-whatwg.org/2009-May/019595.html Allowing authors to keep track of where content originates http://lists.whatwg.org/htdig.cgi/whatwg-whatwg.org/2009-May/019620.html Helping people seaching for content filtered by license http://lists.whatwg.org/htdig.cgi/whatwg-whatwg.org/2009-May/019668.html Allowing authors to annotate their documents to explain things for readers http://lists.whatwg.org/htdig.cgi/whatwg-whatwg.org/2009-May/019672.html Annotating structured data that HTML has no semantics for http://lists.whatwg.org/htdig.cgi/whatwg-whatwg.org/2009-May/019681.html Exposing known data types in a reusable way http://lists.whatwg.org/htdig.cgi/whatwg-whatwg.org/2009-May/019833.html Providing enhanced search results http://lists.whatwg.org/htdig.cgi/whatwg-whatwg.org/2009-May/019834.html Dragging or copying data between sites http://lists.whatwg.org/htdig.cgi/whatwg-whatwg.org/2009-May/019835.html Writing authoring tools and validators for custom microdata vocabularies http://lists.whatwg.org/htdig.cgi/whatwg-whatwg.org/2009-May/019839.html Removing the need for separate feeds http://lists.whatwg.org/htdig.cgi/whatwg-whatwg.org/2009-May/019884.html Use cases for which I haven't been able to find solutions http://lists.whatwg.org/htdig.cgi/whatwg-whatwg.org/2009-May/019886.html HTH, -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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