- From: Manu Sporny <msporny@digitalbazaar.com>
- Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2013 09:50:26 -0400
- To: RDFa Discussion <public-rdfa@w3.org>, Dan Brickley <danbri@google.com>, Charles McCathie Nevile <chaals@yandex-team.ru>
Hey Dan, Chaals, I wanted to point out this thread on G+ about schema.org and how regular Web developers view what schema.org's preferences are wrt. RDFa Lite: https://plus.google.com/u/0/106943062990152739506/posts/aeBhzwBoa2q It was triggered by a blog post I did yesterday: http://manu.sporny.org/2013/microdata-downward-spiral/ I know I keep harping on this, but it doesn't make it any less true: Web developers are going to use whatever the search engines tell them to use, and right now the message is clear: Use Microdata. Unfortunately, all of the fears I had about how schema.org was being built have now come to pass... the idea that Microdata is the only choice for schema.org is locked into many Web devs minds, and it's going to be very, very hard to undo the damage: http://manu.sporny.org/2011/false-choice/ If you guys truly want to have a level playing field here, update the docs, add RDFa examples. We've offered countless times to help accelerate this process if you guys would just open the site up for public contribution via source control - please put the site on github - we'll help do these long overdue updates. -- manu -- Manu Sporny (skype: msporny, twitter: manusporny, G+: +Manu Sporny) Founder/CEO - Digital Bazaar, Inc. blog: Meritora - Web payments commercial launch http://blog.meritora.com/launch/
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