[Bug 6854] if attribute values enumerated, allow case-sensitivity for meta content values

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=6854


Toby Inkster <mail@tobyinkster.co.uk> changed:

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--- Comment #1 from Toby Inkster <mail@tobyinkster.co.uk>  2009-05-19 15:54:50 ---
This bug begs the question of whether case is a useful way of distinguishing
between ambiguous subjects. I would argue that it is not.

The example given, even when treated case-sensitively is ambiguous. "Mercury"
with a capital "M" could represent the planet, but could also represent the
Roman god Mercury, or the band Mercury who happen to have released an album
called "Mercury".

A better solution to this would be to provide a URL unambiguously identifying
the topic of the document. Including RDFa in HTML5 would close this bug, as
RDFa allows the following:

<head>
  <title>The Planet Mercury</title>
  <link xmlns:foaf="http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/"
        rel="foaf:topic"
        href="http://dbpedia.org/page/Mercury_(planet)" />
</head>

<head>
  <title>Mercury, my favourite element</title>
  <link xmlns:foaf="http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/"
        rel="foaf:topic"
        href="http://dbpedia.org/page/Mercury_(element)" />
</head>

<head>
  <title>Mercury, messenger of the gods</title>
  <link xmlns:foaf="http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/" 
        rel="foaf:topic"
        href="http://dbpedia.org/page/Mercury_(mythology)" />
</head>

<head>
  <title>Mercury, what a great band!</title>
  <link xmlns:foaf="http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/"
        rel="foaf:topic"
       
href="http://dbtune.org/musicbrainz/resource/artist/89116de7-0aa7-47f5-a36c-c7f7cadd7013"
/>
</head>

<head>
  <title>Mercury, what a great album!</title>
  <link xmlns:foaf="http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/"
        rel="foaf:topic"
       
href="http://dbtune.org/musicbrainz/resource/record/652217f0-35b0-4615-b955-4822d832cd0e"
/>
</head>


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