Re: CfC: Request transition of HTML Microdata to Candidate Recommendation

On Nov 25, 2012, at 12:53 PM, Manu Sporny <msporny@digitalbazaar.com> wrote:

> 
> The question that I'm asking the HTML WG to discuss is why it's
> publishing a spec whose functionality is duplicated in another W3C spec.

The HTML WG is doing so based on the following Working Group Decision on ISSUE-76, where the Working Group explicitly decided not to pick a winner between HTML Microdata and HTML+RDFa: <http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2010Jan/att-0218/issue-76-decision.html>

This decision was largely based on the following Change Proposal, which argued persuasively in favor of "allowing many flowers to bloom": <http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2009Dec/0299.html>

Regards,
Maciej

Received on Sunday, 25 November 2012 22:22:13 UTC