- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2010 18:47:29 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Nathan <nathan@webr3.org>
- cc: public-html-comments@w3.org, Thomas Baker <tbaker@tbaker.de>
On Tue, 7 Dec 2010, Nathan wrote: > Ian Hickson wrote: > > I've used dce: and dct:, since now the example has both. > > A general comment, microdata appears to be incredibly verbose for > authors when using multiple vocabularies to describe things, the example > at http://dev.w3.org/html5/md/#examples is almost painful to read, let > alone write. > > Is there no way to reduce the repetition of long URIs for properties and > types as illustrated by the Turtle equivalent in the referred to > example? Does HTML or Microdata cater for this in any way? When we did the usability studies for this we found that in practice (and much to my surprise) the verbosity had no impact on the usability of the language, so we didn't do anything to reduce it. Furthermore, in practice, most use cases for microdata don't involve multiple vocabularies but a single vocabulary explicitly named using itemtype="", for which the vocabulary's short names are used. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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