Steven Pemberton wrote: > On Thu, 05 Jul 2007 09:37:13 +0200, Ivan Herman <ivan@w3.org> wrote: > >> I agree with the general direction of your thoughts. @role is being >> discussed by the XHTML group to be included into some future releases of >> XHTML (I do not want to go into the debate of which version number this >> will have:-). We should _not_ use that attribute and bring it forward, >> so to say, to XHML1.1. I is not our role (sic!). >> >> Formally, and to close the issue: I vote for @class as described. > > I think that your argumentation doesn't count here Ivan. > > We are 'bringing forward' several things, by creating an XHTML 1.1+RDFa. > What attributes we use are independent. @about is new too, but > essential, @role is already implemented in Firefox, and we can add it to > the mix if we want. > > Don't muddy the waters please :-) :-) There is a difference, though. @about has been introduced for RDFa. However, (and I may be wrong with that!) @role was introduced with some general, not-necessarily-RDF usage in XHTML2 that RDFa _may_ reuse. And, from the RDFa side, there is no way to predict what the evolution of @role will be in future versions of XHTML2... Ivan > > Steven -- Ivan Herman, W3C Semantic Web Activity Lead URL: http://www.w3.org/People/Ivan/ PGP Key: http://www.cwi.nl/%7Eivan/AboutMe/pgpkey.html FOAF: http://www.ivan-herman.net/foaf.rdf
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