- From: Steven Pemberton <steven.pemberton@cwi.nl>
- Date: Tue, 04 Oct 2005 12:50:27 +0200
- To: "Ben Adida" <ben@mit.edu>, "public-rdf-in-xhtml task force" <public-rdf-in-xhtml-tf@w3.org>
On Mon, 03 Oct 2005 05:18:04 +0200, Ben Adida <ben@mit.edu> wrote: > 2) CURI and backwards compatibility: > > This is an issue we haven't fully discussed. We should discuss it. CURIs > may present backwards-compatibility issue with respect to REL="next" and > the like from previous versions of HTML. We need to be conscious of > these issues and to work through them. Anything we do here will not work on old software. <link rel="next" href="http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Group/2005/thingy"/> works just as well in the old and new versions, but the purely new stuff: <link rel="next" href=":htmlwg:thingy"/> will only work on new software. On the other hand, trying to dereference the new stuff in old software should at least generate some sort of error message (even if it is just a 404). At the Hypertext coordination meeting last week, they were asking how we can go about making CURIs more generally usable across W3C. They agreed to talk about it more at the next call. Minuted at the first section of http://www.w3.org/2005/09/30-hcg-minutes By the way we still have to agree on a format for a CURI, either: href=":htmlwg:thingy" or href="[htmlwg:thingy]" and for bnodes: href=":_:a" or href="[_:a]" I like the colon version, since it suggests a missing scheme, but I can live with either. Steven
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