- From: Nathan <nathan@webr3.org>
- Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2012 20:57:03 +0000
- To: Charles McCathie Nevile <chaals@yandex-team.ru>
- CC: Manu Sporny <msporny@digitalbazaar.com>, Marcos Caceres <w3c@marcosc.com>, HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>, Sam Ruby <rubys@intertwingly.net>
Charles McCathie Nevile wrote: > On Sun, 25 Nov 2012 23:25:38 +0400, Nathan <nathan@webr3.org> wrote: > >> Charles McCathie Nevile wrote: >>> On Sun, 25 Nov 2012 22:15:26 +0400, Marcos Caceres <w3c@marcosc.com> >>> wrote: >>>>> The fact that RDFa already does what Microdata does has >>>>> been elaborated upon before: >>> Yes. For what it is worth, I personally think RDFa is generally a >>> technically better solution. But as Marcos says, "so what"? Our job >>> at W3C is to make standards for the technology the market decides to >>> use. >> >> Standards, plural? not a standard way to do things, singular? > > If the market wants more than one way, that's what we should be > offering. I think we all agree that it is *better* to have an agreed > single way. Of *course* we all agree that it is better to have the > technologically best specification as the standard. I'd be interested to see the data / info that says the market wants more than one offering here. Do you, does yandex? > ... It took some years to get constructive dialogue on why > people want one, the other, or both, and how they best fit together in > the world. The sort of constructive dialogue that is the special product > of W3C, which I think is unparalleled in its ability to provide this > value to the Web. I agree, however the only real discussion I've seen around Microdata and RDFa is the discussion which led up to the TAG guidance: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html-comments/2011Jun/0038.html On the back of that I was aware of it being taken seriously by some parties, and RDFa Lite being put forward. I'm unaware of any such effort or dialogue around Microdata though. I would love a pointer to this dialogue, anything which says "why I can use Microdata but I can't use RDFa (Lite)", any conversation, anything which suggests that it's a good idea to publish Microdata as a REC - in addition to RDFa (Lite) - other than it simply existing. Best, Nathan
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