- From: James Graham <jgraham@opera.com>
- Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2009 07:33:40 +0000
- To: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>
- Cc: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>, Shelley Powers <shelleyp@burningbird.net>, public-html@w3.org
Quoting Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>: > > On Jun 25, 2009, at 1:32 PM, Ian Hickson wrote: > >> >> The text of HTML5 was all written by me, but I do disagree with several >> parts of it. These include, but are not limited to: > > [...] > >> >> - The inclusion of the microdata section > > Does anyone agree with the inclusion of the microdata section? Yes, I do. People clearly want to add additional custom metadata vocabularies to their pages; witness the existing usage of solutions coming from the microformats initiative. Compared to microformats I believe the HTML 5 microdata offers more consistent parsing rules (a single parser can unambiguously parse all microdata, allowing features such as automatic conversion to RDF) and cleaner seperation from the rest of the markup language. Compared to RFDa, microdata offers a considerably simpler authoring experience which I believe to be critical to gaining traction with a large base of users. Thus, despite the fact that microdata has somewhat fewer features than RDFa I think it will be the catalyst for more, and more innovative, uses of embedded microdata than the more complex format.
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