- From: Aryeh Gregor <Simetrical+w3c@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 25 May 2011 19:38:57 -0400
- To: Tim Berners-Lee <timbl@w3.org>
- Cc: HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>, TAG List <www-tag@w3.org>, Larry Masinter <masinter@adobe.com>
Is this the same as bug 12713? http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=12713 On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 1:02 AM, Tim Berners-Lee <timbl@w3.org> wrote: > Looking back through the the archive I see sent this to the TAG list instead > of the > the HTML working group list. My apologies. > I had wondered why nothing else had happened in response. > This is a serious bug and one which apparently remains > in http://dev.w3.org/html5/md-LC/ > Tim > > Begin forwarded message: > > From: Tim Berners-Lee <timbl@w3.org> > Date: 2011-04-19 19:14:53 GMT+02:00 > To: TAG List <www-tag@w3.org> > Subject: Re http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/group/track/actions/510 > > Reading http://dev.w3.org/html5/md/#examples > > Taking an action from the TAG meeting: > re: action http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/group/track/actions/510 > > This note passes on concern the TAG had about the appalling > URIs generated in the procedures described in the HTML5 spec at > http://dev.w3.org/html5/md/#examples > > In the example, the HCARD data is to be parsed to produce RDF data with a > predicate whose URI is > http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml/microdata#http://microformats.org/profile/hcard%23:adr > That is an appalling URI, for a number of reasons. > > 1. It is horribly long > > 2. It is constructed including two other URIS, so that there is a > combination of two authorities, so it will only be supported if the w3.org > and mictorformats.org sites coordinate the generation of new microformats. > It makes W3C responsible for supporting things added in microformats.org > which, while W3c may need to do this special cases should not be built into > the semantics of the HTML language. > > 3. Because it has a hash in he middle instead of at the end, typical > serializers won't be able to use namespace prefix on output, so any files > which use these URLs will by ugly, unreadable, and large. > > There may be other serious flaws with the RDF mapping described there, but > that one jumps out. > > Tim > > > > > > > > > > > > >
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