- From: Lachlan Hunt <lachlan.hunt@lachy.id.au>
- Date: Wed, 09 May 2007 06:12:27 +1000
- To: Murray Maloney <murray@muzmo.com>
- CC: public-html@w3.org
Murray Maloney wrote: > The profile at http://www.muzmo.com/profiles/book.html is not complete. > In particular, I have only spec'd REL/REV values, but you can easily infer > the corresponding CLASS definitions. I will flesh this out a bit if anybody > thinks that it is worth considering as an example profile. > > However, please consider: > > <html profile="http://www.muzmo.com/profiles/book.html"> > <head > ... The profile attribute (which was actually defined for the head element in HTML4) is, in practice, useless. Microformats defined profile URIs for many of their formats. But in practice, there are many sites that don't bother using them properly, if at all, and more importantly, there are also many tools available that are able to work with the microformats, without even checking if it's present. So such real world usage and implementation experience indicates that the profile attribute is not necessary, and so it shouldn't be included in HTML5. -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au/
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