- From: Shelley Powers <shelleyp@burningbird.net>
- Date: Tue, 07 Dec 2010 18:23:06 -0600
- To: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- CC: Nathan <nathan@webr3.org>, public-html-comments@w3.org, Thomas Baker <tbaker@tbaker.de>
On 12/7/10 12:47 PM, Ian Hickson wrote: > 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. When you did that usability study, if I remember correctly, there was only 6 test subjects, all Google employees, and I believe volunteers. That does not make a study you can extrapolate from. > 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. > Actually, I don't think there is any "practice". I've not seen microdata used in the wild. Not to say there isn't, but I've not seen it. Shelley
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