- From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2010 10:09:53 -0700
- To: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Cc: Toby Inkster <tai@g5n.co.uk>, Leif Halvard Silli <xn--mlform-iua@xn--mlform-iua.no>, Philip Jägenstedt <philipj@opera.com>, "public-html@w3.org" <public-html@w3.org>
On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 9:34 AM, Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de> wrote: > Tab Atkins Jr. wrote: >> The second isn't really distributed extensibility, because the >> browsers have to support each vocab manually. > > I disagree that this isn't D.E. You seem to assume the D.E. implies some > kind of code-on-demand, which IMHO is not what most people think. Otherwise > XML namespaces wouldn't qualify either. I'm making a slightly subtler point. Microdata, RDFa, and even XML Namespaces can all be processed with a generic processor that has no information about the actual vocabularies being used. You can just say "Find me all the items/triples/namespaced elements on the page", and it can do it. Thus the extensibility granted by these technologies is distributed, as no central authority has to recognize and bless your vocab for it to be processable by generic tools. However, if this proposal requires tools to recognize particular @profile values before it can even tell that there *is* data embedded in the page, let alone *extract* it, then this does not seem to be distributed in any significant way. ~TJ
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