- From: Ivan Herman <ivan@w3.org>
- Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2011 13:53:43 +0200
- To: Jeni Tennison <jeni@jenitennison.com>
- Cc: public-html-data-tf <public-html-data-tf@w3.org>
On Oct 7, 2011, at 11:49 , Jeni Tennison wrote: > > On 7 Oct 2011, at 10:25, Lin Clark wrote: >> On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 8:26 AM, Ivan Herman <ivan@w3.org> wrote: >>> The microdata spec also allows, afaik, the <link> and <meta> elements in the body if used with microdata attributes. Which is a good approach. I would like to see that possibility extended to RDFa, too. The simplest approach would be to allow <link> and <meta> in the body in general. The RDFa processing model would handle those out of the box. >>> >>> Maybe this is a recommendation this group could make to HTML5 >> >> I strongly agree on this. It would be poor usability otherwise, because there is no clear reason why one syntax should be different than the other in this regard, from a content author's perspective. > > There is already a bug on this: > > http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=14114 > Ah, so it has already been filed. Great. > and I agree that there should be consistency between RDFa and microdata here. > > On the other hand, I don't know whether using <link> and <meta> in content is actually a good recommendation for users right now. Correct. Right now it is not advisable to use them for the reason you cite below. But if HTML5 adopts this then, eventually, this may become a good, actually probably optimal way of doing this. Ivan > Most browsers will move these elements up into the <head> of the document, which means that client-side RDFa/microdata parsers won't generate correct data for these documents. (This might be a problem for server-side parsers as well, I guess; I don't know whether off-the-shelf HTML5 parsers have the same problem.) > > Is this something someone would volunteer to investigate so we have some solid basis for a recommendation here? > > Thanks, > > Jeni > -- > Jeni Tennison > http://www.jenitennison.com > > ---- Ivan Herman, W3C Semantic Web Activity Lead Home: http://www.w3.org/People/Ivan/ mobile: +31-641044153 PGP Key: http://www.ivan-herman.net/pgpkey.html FOAF: http://www.ivan-herman.net/foaf.rdf
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