- From: Murray Maloney <murray@muzmo.com>
- Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 00:42:17 -0500
- To: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>
- Cc: public-html@w3.org
At 12:04 PM 3/29/2007 -0700, Maciej Stachowiak wrote: >I think the principles under dispute reflect some underlying fault >lines in the web standards community. > >The "Visible Metadata" principle is favored by Microformats advocates >(among others), but objected to by RDF / Semantic Web advocates. Not so. As early as 1993, I was encoding metadata into HTML using the LINK element to great effect. I wrote an IETF draft on REL/REV. I am an SGML/HTML/XML guy, not an RDF guy. As I wrote earlier, this is a design choice. We should not establish a principle that will encumber our later design process. >The "Mostly Semantic Markup" principle is favored by HTML advocates, >but objected to by those who think you need XML/SGML to have "real" >semantics. Again, not so. I want more and better semantic markup in HTML. I just don't want a design principle that favors it. As a technical writer and typographer, I think that it is equally important that simple publishing tasks remain simple. A design principle would mitigate against <i> and <b>. On the other hand, developing a REQUIREMENT that specifies classes of semantic markup that are needed in HTML would be welcome -- assuming that we can agree on those classes of markup or how better to integrate elements from other namespaces.
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