- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2009 09:08:04 +0000 (UTC)
- To: James Graham <jgraham@opera.com>
- Cc: "public-html@w3.org WG" <public-html@w3.org>
On Thu, 16 Jul 2009, James Graham wrote: > Ian Hickson wrote: > > > Do we want to drop support for dragging contact information from the > > Web to native apps just so that we can change which spec holds what? > > That seems weird. (We could split the sections out and have > > bidirectional normative references instead, but that seems to defeat > > the point of extracting the sections.) > > That does seem unfortunate but it could also be solved (in a more > flexible way) by native apps getting support for the HTML5 microdata > format. Obviously this is less than ideal since it means that many > native apps would have to be updated compared with relatively few > browsers. However it may be good enough as a first step. I think it is > only a critical problem if DnD to native calendar/address book apps is > seen as the killer feature of microdata. Otherwise it seems reasonable > to leave this out initially (i.e. for HTML5) and add support for it if > it is needed (and implementors seem interested) later. I don't know if it's a killer feature (and as I've mentioned before, I'm not really convinced the whole microdata/RDFa/microformats feature is compelling). But it was one of the most important use cases put forward. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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