On Mon, 11 May 2009, Simon Reinhardt wrote: > > Can anyone tell me what "microdata" is supposed to mean anyway? Is there > macrodata as well and what does it look like? I think Hixie's talking > about a format/syntax but I find the name to be rather confusing. The name just sort of "happened" -- it's small bits of data, hence "microdata". I didn't really intend to name this part of the spec, but I needed some way to refer to the way of embedding these small bits of data into HTML files. If anyone has a better name suggestion, I'm happy to use it (ideally something self-explanatory, so not an acronym, and something brief, so not "attributes for embedding small pieces of data in HTML"). -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'Received on Monday, 11 May 2009 22:18:27 GMT
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