Re: De-namespace *all stable* microformats and put them in Extended Voc? [was Re: Proposal: de-namespace vcard in the normative AS2 JSON-LD context]

On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 8:00 AM, Harry Halpin <hhalpin@w3.org> wrote:
> Looking forward to the possibility of using form-encoding in the API,
> maybe it would be useful to de-namespace all stable microformats - which
> TimBL and the W3C agreed it was OK to normatively reference in W3C specs
> - and put them in the ActivityStreams Vocabulary?
>
> Does that make sense?
>
> Then, rather than vCard, we'd also just have hCard/vCard (although a
> quick double-check to make sure they line-up 100% is in order.
>

It's not clear at all what this means actually. Example?

- James


>    cheers,
>        harry
>
>
>
>
> On 04/23/2015 06:45 PM, James M Snell wrote:
>> Yes that's exactly the plan. The jsonld context would do the heavy lifting
>> here.
>> On Apr 23, 2015 9:44 AM, "hhalpin" <hhalpin@w3.org> wrote:
>>
>>> On 2015-04-23 06:53, Renato Iannella wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 23 Apr 2015, at 1:41 am, James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> While this is helpful, the use of the namespace prefix is irritating.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Why is it irritating?
>>>>
>>>
>>> My guess is some developers - particularly those who aren't using RDF
>>> somewhere mentally - don't like using namespaces, and often accidently
>>> leave them out. I know I've seen that in some usages of FOAF by non-RDF
>>> aware developers in the past.
>>>
>>> Would there be a way of sorting this out in the JSON-LD context, so that
>>> RDF-aware processors could properly namespace the vCard vocabulary usage
>>> while your ordinary JSON developer on the street would just process without
>>> namespaces (since they wouldn't be resolving them to begin with)?
>>>
>>>
>>>> Cheers...
>>>> Renato Iannella
>>>> Semantic Identity
>>>> http://semanticidentity.com
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>>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>>
>>> Harry Halpin (W3C/MIT) harry@w3.org
>>>
>>
>

Received on Tuesday, 28 April 2015 15:21:59 UTC