- From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2011 09:47:09 -0700
- To: Sam Ruby <rubys@intertwingly.net>
- Cc: HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>
On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 9:09 AM, Sam Ruby <rubys@intertwingly.net> wrote: > On 03/29/2011 11:53 AM, Tab Atkins Jr. wrote: >> >> On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 7:59 AM, Sam Ruby<rubys@intertwingly.net> wrote: >>> >>> === Arguments not considered: >>> >>> Following are either direct quotes or paraphrases of arguments which >>> were put forward which were not considered. >>> >>> Running examples from the OpenGraph Protocol site through the >>> facebook linter shows that removing the prefix declaration has no >>> effect but changing it prevents any properties from being recognised. >>> Code inspection of some of the other tools indicates that there are >>> clients in Python, PHP, Ruby and Java that depend on literal matching >>> of the string "og:". >>> >>> No change proposal was put forward suggesting that all usages be >>> migrated to fixed prefixes. Nor was there any evidence put forward >>> that fixes to these tools would break content. The fact that these >>> tools have bugs is uncontested but that, in itself, does not help >>> identify the proposal that draws the weakest objections. >> >> ... >>> >>> It would be important to know if Facebook's and Google's content >>> consuming code could be made work with prebound prefixes for >>> compatibility with legacy content that uses prefixes. >>> >>> We only consider proposals which actually were put forward. Neither >>> change proposal proposed standardizing Facebook's or Google's prefixes. >> >> I object to these two arguments not being considered > > I just want to be clear, per the W3C process[1]: > > The word "objection" used alone has ordinary English connotations. > > - Sam Ruby > > [1] > http://www.w3.org/2005/10/Process-20051014/policies.html#WGArchiveMinorityViews Is it necessary for me to care? Does my email get significantly different treatment based on whether I add the word "formal"? ~TJ
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