- From: Tantek Çelik <tantek@cs.stanford.edu>
- Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2010 16:24:34 -0800
- To: Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc>
- Cc: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>, "public-html@w3.org" <public-html@w3.org>
On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 2:55 PM, Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc> wrote: > Hi Julian, > > While I'm still unconvinced of the value of profile, I think this is a > great plan for going forward! Hi Jonas and thanks for your kind words. I will agree with you that there is still a burden upon the editor and authors to demonstrate the value of a generalized profile attribute on all elements. > 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. Agreed. With the microdata (syntax & processing) draft being separated out from HTML5, this path made the most sense. It also provides an explicit deliberately forward-compatible path for use of microformats in HTML5, and the opportunity for the various extensions to borrow/share from each other as they see fit in the interest of informing and improving all of them. > > / Jonas > Thanks, Tantek > 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) >> >> >> > > -- http://tantek.com/
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