- From: John Giannandrea <jg@metaweb.com>
- Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2009 15:00:34 -0700
- To: public-html@w3.org
The updated microdata specification is a great improvement and covers many use cases I can envision for it. I would like to suggest that the spec can be simplified further by removing the reversed DNS labels. Microdata supports short unqualified names, as well as fully qualified URIs for itemprop, itemid and itemtype. As far as I can determine the reverse DNS labels do not provide any more functionality than URIs so the spec could be simplified by eliminating the duplication. The argument could be made that reverse DNS labels are nicer to look at, but if aesthetics are important then authors will presumably use itemtype and short property names. I also have a concern that the reverse DNS syntax introduces a new idiom (e.g. that http://example.com/foo == com.example.foo) which is new to the web. While URIs have their own issues, they are well known to the web community. -jg freebase.com
Received on Monday, 5 October 2009 22:04:34 UTC