- From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
- Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2010 00:11:25 -0500
- To: Aryeh Gregor <Simetrical+w3c@gmail.com>
- CC: HTMLWG WG <public-html@w3.org>
On 1/16/10 10:21 PM, Aryeh Gregor wrote: > Both RDFa+HTML and microdata are ready for implementations and author > adoption, though, right? So isn't it incorrect to suggest that they > aren't? microdata is in CR? See http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Process/Process-19991111/tr.html#Recs for the definitions of the REC-track phases. The one where implementation experience is asked for is CR. Now UAs and authors can of course experiment with things that are in earlier stages, but that's all it is: experimentation. Such experimntation is useful, obviously, but until you get into CR there are no guarantees of the spec not radically changing under you. In CSS, CR is the stage at which you get to start dropping your vendor prefixes from your implementation. It's too bad, in some ways, that other languages don't have a fallback story that allows similar relatively-painless namespacing of experimental features... In any case, neither microdata nor rdfa+html is in CR. So they are not in fact "ready for implementation and adoption". They're still at the "maybe ready for some experimentation; if you try, expect your stuff to get broken" stage at best. -Boris
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