Re: ISSUE-76: Need feedback on splitting Microdata into separate specification

On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 11:50 AM, Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de> wrote:
> 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.

Well, we *do* have the "complete" spec view now...

~TJ

Received on Friday, 16 October 2009 17:15:47 UTC