- From: Shelley Powers <shelley.just@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 8 Jan 2010 18:54:50 -0600
- To: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>
- Cc: HTML WG Public List <public-html@w3.org>
On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 12:12 AM, Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com> wrote: > > This is a Call for Consensus (CfC) to publish the First Public Working Draft > (FPWD) of the HTML5 Microdata spec: > > http://dev.w3.org/cvsweb/~checkout~/html5/md/Overview.html?content-type=text/html > > and to publish a new Working Draft of HTML5 reflecting the split of > Microdata: > > http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/Overview.html > > > Silence will be taken to mean there is no objection, but positive responses > are encouraged. If there are no objections by Thursday, January 24, this > resolution will carry. > > Considerations to note: > > - As a First Public Working Draft, this publication will trigger patent > policy review. > - As a Working Draft publication, the document does not need not be > complete, to meet all technical requirements, or to have consensus on the > contents. > > Regards, > Maciej > > > I do not support the publication of Microdata as a W3C FPWD. The same concerns we had previously, that the W3C seemingly promoting two separate metadata approaches would cause confusion, still applies. I think it would be better for the specification to be a WhatWG only publication, as Microformats has its own support organization. Shelley
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