- From: Leif Halvard Silli <xn--mlform-iua@xn--mlform-iua.no>
- Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2009 22:26:31 +0200
- To: martin@weborganics.co.uk
- CC: "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com>, Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>, public-html@w3.org
Martin McEvoy On 09-10-15 23.59: > Tab Atkins Jr. wrote: >> On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 4:33 PM, Martin McEvoy <martin@weborganics.co.uk> wrote: >> >>> Itemscope, itemprop, itemref...etc..etc don't sound human friendly at all, >>> If microdata were ever to become popular ( god forbid ) think of all >>> gigabaytes of data that's going to take up just because you thought that >>> pre-pending everything with "item" was somehow intuitive, and TBL worries >>> about forward slashes, Im suprised you can sleep at night ;) >>> >> You kidding? Prepending everything is *awesome*, because it >> immediately calls out that this is a group of related attributes. >> Since they're all global attributes, it's useful to have an immediate >> visual clue about what you're dealing with. It also lets you avoid >> worrying about name collisions with existing attributes. > > If you say so tab ;) On this particular issue, I agree with Tab that it is practical that they all begin with the same "prefix" - item*. It is like with namespaces and namespace prefixes - simple and effective. Easy for authors to understand. I'm glad to see that a Google internal research has proved it. -- leif halvard silli
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