Re: [RDFa] issues meta/link outside of head and browsers implementation

Steven Pemberton wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 13 Feb 2007 14:57:10 +0100, Ben Adida <ben@adida.net> wrote:
> 
>> Yes, we've seen this, too, which is why all of the examples no longer
>> use LINK and META outside of the HEAD.
>>
>> Basically, we're working on having all of RDFa implementable using only
>> extra attributes, since such extra attributes are supposed to be ignored
>> by browser, as per the HTML spec, and in fact other tools (the Dojo
>> toolkit) use custom attributes already and the browsers don't mind.
> 
> Ha! I'd missed that. Good idea.
> 
> How about:
> 
> <p>
>    <span role="meta" property="title">XHTML<sup>tm</sup> Basic</span>
>    ...
> </p>

Why do we need role="meta"? Is it for reification purposes, etc?

> 
> and
> 
> <p>
>    <span role="link" rel="index" href="p-index.html"/>
>    ...
> </p>

Why not just use the fact that @href is there?

It's snowing outside, so forgive me if I'm missing something. :)

-Elias

> 
> These then take the special rules about the 'about' being the parent
> element.
> 
> Steven
> 
> 

Received on Wednesday, 14 February 2007 14:51:19 UTC