Re: Google adds JSON-LD support to Gmail

On 16 May 2013 13:51, Dan Brickley <danbri@danbri.org> wrote:
>
> On 16 May 2013 07:08, "Manu Sporny" <msporny@digitalbazaar.com> wrote:
>>
>> Google just added JSON-LD support to Gmail. It was announced at Google
>> I/O (thanks to Bob Du Charme for spotting it):
>>
>> https://developers.google.com/gmail/schemas/embedding-schemas-in-emails
>>
>> This is a pretty big validation of the technology. Great work to
>> everyone that has been involved in the grueling process of getting the
>> specs to where they are today! We should all be very proud of this
>> breakthrough!
>>
>> They have decided to not use a URL in the '@context'. I'm currently
>> trying to find out why they did this. If they did this on purpose, we
>> may have to do another LC to accept 'keywords' in the @context field.
>
> Happy to discuss this in detail after Google IO finishes i.e. next week.
>
> Briefly, this was all about simplicity for partners...
>
>> Ideally, we can just ask them to put 'http://' in front of the
>> parameter. It's the only place that they deviated from the spec (which
>> is actually pretty good).

A couple of points on this:

1. We (Google) can parse this if written @context="http://schema.org" and
we'll find a way to document that.

2. We'd also like to start a conversation about allowing the simpler,
shorter form by defaulting to http:// if not present.

Dan