- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Mon, 7 Dec 2009 18:23:57 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Aryeh Gregor <Simetrical+w3c@gmail.com>
- Cc: public-html <public-html@w3.org>
On Mon, 7 Dec 2009, Aryeh Gregor wrote: > On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 6:22 PM, Toby Inkster <tai@g5n.co.uk> wrote: > > Why is it not conceivably reusable outside of HTML? > > Well, okay, let me back down a bit on that. It's conceivably reusable > outside of HTML, yes. But no more or less than, say, <video>. It's > plausible that other specifications would want to include videos. For > instance, SVG currently allows embedding bitmap images, and it might > make sense for it to allow embedding videos too. The same goes for many > other parts of HTML, even <img>. It's actually even worse than those two, because the microdata processing model makes certain assumptions about the vocabulary. For SVG to reuse itemscope=""/itemprop=""/etc, the processing model would have to be rewritten to define how it works in SVG, and SVG would have to be extended to provide parallels for <time itemprop datetime>, <meta itemprop content>, <link itemprop href>, etc. In practice I think the end result would be a whole new spec, that just reuses the attribute names. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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