- From: Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc>
- Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 10:07:55 -0700
- To: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>
- Cc: Manu Sporny <msporny@digitalbazaar.com>, HTMLWG WG <public-html@w3.org>
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 10:03 AM, Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 9:31 AM, Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com> wrote: >> >> Incidentally, I feedback from the Working Group is welcome and encouraged on >> the topic of whether Microdata should be split out of the main spec, even in >> advane of the Change Proposal. Right now it's not clear to me who in the >> Working Group is in favor of or against this change, and why. > > I would prefer to keep microdata in the HTML5 spec. I think > microformats are a very interesting feature and important enough to > keep in the main specification. > > As some will surely wonder what my feelings regarding where RDFa > should live, I'll put that here too even though I realize it's > somewhat off topic for this thread. I don't think that RDFa should be > in the main HTML5 spec since I don't think it's the right solution for > the web. Reasons outlined here in [1]. Though some of the processing > model for the xmlns attributes might have been cleared up since that > email was written. ... > [1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2009Sep/0745.html Arg, forgot to finish that email: Thus I don't think that putting RDFa in the HTML5 spec is the right thing to do. However I'm all for publishing a separate specification that adds RDFa support to HTML. This way, if it turns out that I'm wrong in my concerns, people can still use RDFa. And in a future version of HTML we could then add RDFa support if needed. However I'll also respect a decision from the WG if it decides that microdata and RDFa should be given equal status and thus neither should be included in the HTML5 spec. / Jonas
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