- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2009 16:28:54 +0200
- To: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
- CC: Shelley Powers <shelleyp@burningbird.net>, public-html@w3.org
Anne van Kesteren wrote: > On Thu, 15 Oct 2009 15:39:00 +0200, Shelley Powers > <shelleyp@burningbird.net> wrote: >> Forget RDFa for the moment: what is it about Microdata that's >> important to you, personally? > > Microdata is basically microformats without all the problems and without > the complexity of RDFa. > > I don't think removing Microdata from HTML5 because HTML5 is too big is > a good argument personally. I agree that it would be good if HTML5 was > made smaller, but then we should make an effort to remove the bits that > are not (proposed to be) core to HTML. Rather it should be about > splitting out the Window object, script execution, event loop and queue, > and other such aspects. That would make the specification on HTML more > focused I think, removing core bits of the language just makes it > scattered. You make it say as if anybody was suggesting removing "core bits". What we disagree on is whether microdata is a "core bit" or not. BR, Julian
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