Re: profile attribute and conformance [was: Comparing conformance requirements against real-world docs] from Ryan King on 2008-09-04 (public-html@w3.org from September 2008)

From: Ryan King <ryan@theryanking.com>
Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2008 10:23:12 -0700
To: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
Cc: Michael (tm) Smith <mike@w3.org>, HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>
Message-Id: <695E6C0C-BCDF-4FC0-937A-F2BD4E72A02E@theryanking.com>

On Sep 4, 2008, at 7:54 AM, Henri Sivonen wrote:
> In general, having the URI at the top of the page source and the  
> microformat later in the body goes against the view source copy and  
> paste way of learning HTML and also goes against the restrictions of  
> blogging systems that allow people to paste stuff somewhere in the  
> body but not control the head of the page.

To get around this issue, there's a proposal on the microformats wiki  
[1] that would allow profile URIs to be placed in the body.

-ryan

1. http://microformats.org/wiki/rel-profile

Received on Thursday, 4 September 2008 17:23:52 UTC