- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Sat, 9 May 2009 20:08:01 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Cc: "public-html@w3.org" <public-html@w3.org>
On Sat, 9 May 2009, Julian Reschke wrote: > > Out of curiosity, where do the requirements below come from? > > "* License proliferation should be discouraged." > > I agree that License proliferation is problematic, but it seems to be an > totally orthogonal issue. This request came from requests from a number of organisations that I consulted with, for example Google's license compliance team. It was a common thread in feedback from open source groups. > "* Shouldn't require the consumer to write XSLT or server-side code to > process the license information." > > Why single out XSLT? And what has server-side code to do with this? This requirement originally came form Daniel O'Connor in a blog comment here: http://realtech.burningbird.net/semantic-web/semantic-markup/stop-justifying-rdfa He has since clarified that he means this more broadly that he would like to minimise the number of times that authors should rewrite parsing code. > "* Should not require changes to HTML5 parsing rules." > > I understand that it's not desirable at this point to change the parsing > rules, but I have a hard time understanding how it gets into this > requirements list. I couldn't find the original e-mail that caused me to add this, but it's along the same vein as the others; someone requested that we make sure that microdata solutions not require changes to the core syntax. HTH, -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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