Re: Final Report comments

Thanks Toby, 

I will try and get these comments into the final report.

Mischa

On 8 Oct 2010, at 16:19, Toby Inkster wrote:

> XRD
> ===
> 
> References LRDD for discovery. LRDD, as a standalone spec, is defunct.
> It's been subsumed by the host-meta draft spec as of revision 10.
> 
> http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-hammer-hostmeta-13#appendix-B
> 
> 
> PortableContacts
> ================
> 
> States that it's a superset of vCard. While it's certainly derived from
> vCard, it's not a superset. Many of the property names are changed
> (e.g. ADR -> addresses) and many are removed (LOGO, ROLE, TITLE, etc).
> It's also syntactically entirely different. vCard is serialised using
> text/directory (the same as iCalendar); PortableContacts is serialised
> as XML or, more usually, JSON.
> 
> 
> Microformats
> ============
> 
>> common properties of HTML such as "rel", "class", and "span" 
> 
> huh? How about: established HTML attributes such as 'rel', 'class' and
> 'rev'.
> 
>> 94 percent of Google Rich Snippets data indexed by Google Rich
>> Snippets is based on microformats rather than RDFa or microdata.
> 
> This is a somewhat misleading statistic and may need clarifying.
> Doesn't compare Microformats against RDFa and Microdata; it compares
> microformats against the use of Google's own vocabulary in RDFa and
> Microformats. i.e. commonly used vocabs such as FOAF, SIOC, vCard,
> iCalendar, Dublin Core are not included.
> 
> 
> Open Graph Protocol
> ===================
> 
>> The Facebook Open Graph Protocol allows any web site to a "Like"
>> button to an item in the page by adding only a small amount of
>> simplified RDFa to the header of a web-site
> 
> No, it doesn't.
> 
> The open graph protocol is a metadata vocabulary for describing
> documents and (indirectly) their topics, not that dissimilar from Dublin
> Core. It is typically serialised in RDFa in <meta> elements in HTML
> pages.
> 
> The Facebook "like" button is a separate thing, added via Javascript.
> It is an application that *uses* the open graph protocol.
> 
> -- 
> Toby A Inkster
> <mailto:mail@tobyinkster.co.uk>
> <http://tobyinkster.co.uk>
> 
> 

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