- From: Ben Adida <ben@adida.net>
- Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2009 09:18:03 -0700
- To: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- CC: Manu Sporny <msporny@digitalbazaar.com>, HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>, RDFa mailing list <public-rdf-in-xhtml-tf@w3.org>
Ian Hickson wrote: > By "technical problems" I mean problems with the design, as opposed to > editorial problems. They're primarily usability issues, which are to some > extent subjective. I make no apology for having an opinion on what makes a > usable language; it's my job to have such an opinion. Of course you have an opinion, we all do. But it's time to stop couching your personal opinion as objective "technical problems." If RDFa were impossible to parse in today's browsers with today's JavaScript, that would be an objective technical problem. If no one could get RDFa markup right, that would be an objective technical problem. Clearly, the evidence shows that people are marking up pages with RDFa just fine, and people are parsing RDFa just fine. There are definitely some edge cases with RDFa in HTML that we want to address. We want to do it in the spirit of consensus, working with HTML5 experts in this group. In other words, the *only reason* that micro-data is in the HTML5 spec and not RDFa is because of your personal preference. And in this case, it's even more singular than other aspects of HTML5, because you came up with micro-data on your own, on a whim, and added it to the spec before any meaningful review by anyone. But this is a W3C working group. It should function on consensus. One person's opinion does not a spec make, even when that person is someone like you, Ian, who's contributed an incredible amount of work to the HTML effort. If you won't agree to consensus for "your" version of the spec, then the WG must allow other versions to be published in parallel, so that consensus might emerge from competing views. I don't think any of the three HTML5 specs are "finished." I believe that all three should be published for the heartbeat requirement. -Ben
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