Re: RDFa and Web Directions North 2009

Mark Birbeck wrote:
> [SNIP]
>
> As I said before, RDFa can already be used with HTML5, by anyone who
> wants to do so, and provided that HTML5 remains backwards compatible
> with HTML 4, it will continue to be usable.
>
>   
The heart of the matter, in a nutshell. HTML5 needs to be backward 
compatible with HTML4, the RDFa story is sort of incidental.

Ironically, I sense an inverse thread developing around the virtues of 
breaking HTML5 and HTML4 backward compatibility :-(
> So it sounds to me like we have the best of both worlds; those who
> want to use RDFa -- such as a number of UK government projects,
> Yahoo!, etc., etc. -- can continue to do so. Those who think it's the
> creation of the devil are free to avoid it. ;)
>   

Amen!

:-)
> Regards,
>
> Mark
>
>   


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