- From: Manu Sporny <msporny@digitalbazaar.com>
- Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2009 14:39:50 -0400
- To: HTMLWG WG <public-html@w3.org>
Shelley Powers wrote: > It's been entered as Issue 76 > > http://www.w3.org/html/wg/tracker/issues/76 Thanks Shelley, I was going to ask that either you or Julian enter the issue, so it's great that you took the initiative to do so. There are many, many e-mails concerning the ongoing RDFa in HTML5 discussion. We will probably want to include those in the tracker as well: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&tbo=1&num=50&tbs=qdr%3Ay&q=site%3Alists.whatwg.org+%2BRDFa+&aq=f&oq=&aqi= The date range we may want to search is from August of 2008 to now. Sam, I'm not going to make a formal request for the removal of the Microdata section at the present time as that is the purview of the RDFa TF and our Chair, Ben Adida. I would lobby against removing Microdata and inserting RDFa in its place. I think that there are several ways to proceed: 1. Remove both Microdata and RDFa to separate specifications, but published via the HTML WG. The forthcoming RDFa IG would draft the HTML+RDFa specification. WHAT WG would draft the Microdata specification. Both could be included via reference into the HTML5 spec (if necessary). If that fails: 2. Include both Microdata and RDFa in the HTML 5 specification. If that fails: 3. Vote on which one makes it into the draft and which one should be removed. I prefer these options in this order: 1, 2, 3. I would hate to have to vote on #3 because I think both RDFa and Microdata should be given every opportunity to succeed or fail on their own merits. However, those decisions cannot be made now. For now, I'd just like to note that #microdata, among some of the other HTML5 features, are of concern and publish HTML5-warnings with whatever removals are requested via the poll. -- manu -- Manu Sporny (skype: msporny) (twitter: manusporny) President/CEO - Digital Bazaar, Inc. blog: Bitmunk 3.1 Released - Browser-based P2P Commerce http://blog.digitalbazaar.com/2009/06/29/browser-based-p2p-commerce/
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