- From: Manu Sporny <msporny@digitalbazaar.com>
- Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2009 02:38:35 -0400
- To: HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>, RDFa mailing list <public-rdf-in-xhtml-tf@w3.org>
Ian Hickson wrote: > On Thu, 30 Jul 2009, Sam Ruby wrote: >> Maciej Stachowiak wrote: >>> It seems that some WG participants are uncomfortable with a perception >>> of forks or branches, and I've suggested a way to proceed that would >>> appear less forky. >> My observation is simply this: such a proposal would be more credible if >> it were applied equally to micro-data and RDFa. > > The reason microdata is in HTML5 and RDFa is not is that RDFa has > fundamental technical problems As has been stated numerous times, what you are claiming to be "technical problems" are, in fact, "personal preferences based on design philosophy". However, I'm more than happy to discuss these issues again until this notion of RDFa "having fundamental technical problems" becomes resolved. Either you're not getting what we're saying, or we're not getting what you are saying. So, let's try this again. There was a very long set of discussions that we've had that resulted in every demonstrable technical issue that HTML5+RDFa has, being recorded here: http://rdfa.info/wiki/rdfa-in-html-issues We asked that others, including you, modify the wiki page to document real technical problems. Philip and Julian took us up on the offer, you have yet to do so. If you look toward the bottom of the page, you will see that we've been working through these issues over the past several weeks: http://rdfa.info/wiki/rdfa-in-html-issues#RDFa_Task_Force_Discussion_Order > For example, the use of prefixes If I understand you correctly, the use of prefixes is a "personal preferences based on design philosophy" disagreement that you have as you have yet to produce a technical problem with the use of prefixes. How does that feature break UAs? > the exclusive use of URIs for identifiers Again, if I understand you correctly, the use of "URIs-as-identifiers" is a "personal preferences based on design philosophy" disagreement that you have as you have been unable to produce a technical problem with the use of "URIs-as-identifiers". How does that feature break UAs? > the use of rev="", the use of rel="" in a manner incompatible > with the rest of HTML What is the "technical problem" here? How is this breaking UAs? > the overly complicated processing model Again, does this break UAs? We have more than 7 RDFa processor implementations now, so the issue isn't developer-oriented. If you mean that it's overly-complicated for authors, then it might be -- but the same amorphous claim could be made for large swaths of HTML5, SVG and Javascript. So, what exactly is the "technical problem" with the processing model? > the presence of features that aren't necessary (such as > per-value data typing) Again, your personal preference. There are some that would like to be able to assign types to data. How is this a "technical problem"? > the ability to include multiple name-value pairs per element. Personal preference - what "technical problem" does this create in UAs? If you can come up with some code to demonstrate any of the above as fundamental technical problems, the RDFa community would be thrilled to add it to the list of items on the rdfa-in-html-issues page and start working on a set of solutions to the problem. I say "thrilled" because we would finally have a new issue that is tangible. If you can explain any of the items above in enough detail, I will even try my hardest to write some HTML or Javascript code to demonstrate the issue across browsers. I haven't been able to do so because you have continued to be vague about all of the "technical problems" above... that or I'm incredibly dense, which is a possibility I'm always open to... :) -- 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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