- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2009 18:50:02 +0200
- To: James Graham <jgraham@opera.com>
- CC: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>, Shelley Powers <shelleyp@burningbird.net>, public-html@w3.org
James Graham wrote: > One point that has not, as far as I can tell, thus far been raised in > favour of keeping Microdata in the spec: Hixie has previously reported > that the amount of feedback on sections that have been removed has > dropped compared to when they were in the main spec (sorry I only > remember this from IRC and don't have a reference handy). So keeping > microdata in the main spec ensures that it receives the greatest > possible amount of input from people interested in HTML5 but unaware of > all the history behind what is in different documents. Such people exist > for sure because they regularly appear on IRC asking why X is missing > from HTML5, where X is a feature that has been spun off into a different > spec. Having microdata in the HTML5 spec for Last Call in particular > will ensure that the attention and wide review that happens during the > this period also focuses attention on microdata, thus helping to improve > the technology. That sounds like an argument to add RDFa to the main spec then. BR, Julian
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