- From: Sam Ruby <rubys@intertwingly.net>
- Date: Wed, 13 May 2009 15:53:00 -0400
- To: public-html@w3.org
Smylers wrote: > Ben Adida writes: > >> Philip Taylor wrote: >> >>> * <meta> is moved to head by FF 2.0, FF 3.0, Safari 3.2, Chrome 2.0 >>> * <meta> stays in body in IE6, IE8, Opera 10 >> Interesting changes, thanks for the info. Still seems problematic to >> me, especially re <meta>, which is also expected to stay in the body >> in html5: >> >> http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/Overview.html#meta > > How would such a problem manifest itself? Firefox 3 doesn't know about > the microdata concept or any microdata vocabularies, and as such won't > be interpreting any microdata regardless of what it does with <meta>. > > A parser that does care about microdata (for example, a search engine > crawler) and presents that in some way to a user doesn't require that > user's browser to know about the microdata. I believe that a use case would be people who write applications in JavaScript that run in the browser and access the DOM. Here's an example of such a library for RDFa: http://code.google.com/p/rdfquery/wiki/Introduction > Smylers - Sam Ruby
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