- From: Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc>
- Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2010 14:55:52 -0800
- To: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Cc: "public-html@w3.org" <public-html@w3.org>
Hi Julian, While I'm still unconvinced of the value of profile, I think this is a great plan for going forward! I especially like that this puts RDFa, microdata and @profile on equal footing, clearly indicating to authors that they are free to choose whichever mechanism they like the most. / Jonas On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 12:36 PM, Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de> wrote: > Hi, > > First of all: apologies for the late response to the call for a change > proposal for ISSUE-55. The last update for ISSUE-55 was the following > proposed specification: > > http://html5.digitalbazaar.com/specs/html5-epb.html > > As you know, most WG members have been very busy the previous week; in > particular Manu who has been working on getting the RDFa WG up and running. > > At this point, Manu, Tantek, and I do not propose to apply a change to HTML5 > itself. ISSUE-55 can be closed by amicable resolution. > > In the interest of transparency and better communication, we think the > following is a better path forward and want to give a heads up in case there > are others with similar interests (or skepticisms). > > We are now discussing a separate extension specification, with a relation to > HTML5 similar to RDFa-in-HTML and Microdata. This proposed specification > will be composed of three main sections: > > 1) A normative section, introducing the profile attribute on all elements in > HTML5. > 2) An informative section, listing known HTML 4.01 errata regarding the > profile attribute on the head element > 3) An informative section, describing how this specification could be > applied to both previous versions of HTML and XHTML, and other markup > languages. > > At present there are three supporters of this approach: Tantek, Manu and > myself. > > We consider the generalization of the profile attribute to all elements to > be new information and outside the scope of ISSUE-55. > > The proposal also parallels some discussion that has happened in the RDFa > and microformats communities during the past two years. Namely, allowing the > profile attribute to exist on all elements as a method for scoping the > inclusion and definition of vocabularies. > > The draft will be collaboratively and transparently edited at the following > location: > > http://microformats.org/wiki/html5-profile > > We hope that a FPWD-ready specification should be complete at the end of > March, but will only propose a FPWD at that time if we feel that the work is > ready. > > Best regards, Julian (assisted by Manu and Tantek) > > >
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