- From: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>
- Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2009 19:15:23 -0700
- To: Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc>
- Cc: HTMLWG WG <public-html@w3.org>
On Sep 17, 2009, at 4:39 PM, Jonas Sicking wrote: > On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 4:14 PM, Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com> > wrote: >> >> This is a Call for Consensus (CfC) to publish the First Public >> Working Draft >> (FPWD) of the HTML5+RDFa spec: >> >> http://dev.w3.org/html5/rdfa/Overview.html >> >> Silence will be taken to mean there is no objection, but positive >> responses >> are encouraged. If there are no objections by Thursday, Sept 24, this >> resolution will carry. >> >> Considerations to note: >> - As a First Public Working Draft, this publication will trigger >> patent >> policy review. >> - As a Working Draft publication, the document does not need not be >> complete, to meet all technical requirements, or to have consensus >> on the >> contents. > > As I think any comprehensible draft should be published, I'm all for > publishing a FPWD of the HTML+RDFa document. Thanks for supporting publication. > However, I still think that RDFa is too comlex in its syntax for > users, and thus I don't think it's the right solution for the web. > Simplicity is extra important for something that essentially is > 'hidden' metadata where using the wrong syntax won't give immediate > feedback, but rather result in consumers of the data receiving wrong, > or no, data. Or force consumers to use heuristics to correct said > syntax. If you have concerns that you think will ultimately block Last Call, I encourage you to express them in the form of review comments, either by email or bugs in the new HTML+RDFa bugzilla component. I realize holistic concerns like "this whole design is too complicated" may be hard to resolve through discussion, but we shouldn't leave such things to be a surprise at Last Call time. Regards, Maciej
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