- From: Martin McEvoy <martin@weborganics.co.uk>
- Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2009 18:42:07 +0100
- 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 Sorry Anne I disagree with that statement Microdata is nothing like microformats. Microdata is not "Designed for humans first and machines second". Microdata is not "a set of simple, open data formats built upon existing and widely adopted standards" (in fact quite the opposite really) So Microdata fails two very basic principles of what microformats actually are. > without all the problems and without the complexity of RDFa. I disagree here too "RDFa is Complex" is a false statement RDFa is as complex or as simple as you like, "RDFa is complex" its more of a "moot" statement based on just a few very edge cases. I personally would like to see microdata dropped from the HTML5 spec completely, in favour of inviting the microformats communty to define how microfomats work in HTML5 not some person who has really no interest in any such formats... but who am I. Best wishes -- Martin McEvoy http://weborganics.co.uk/ "You may find it hard to swallow the notion that anything as large and apparently inanimate as the Earth is alive." Dr. James Lovelock, The Ages of Gaia
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