Re: Why I don't like 'instanceof' (was Re: [RDFa] ISSUE-3: syntactic sugar for rdf:type) from Ben Adida on 2007-07-19 (public-rdf-in-xhtml-tf@w3.org from July 2007)

From: Ben Adida <ben@adida.net>
Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2007 07:59:31 -0700
To: Steven Pemberton <steven.pemberton@cwi.nl>
CC: RDFa <public-rdf-in-xhtml-tf@w3.org>, SWD WG <public-swd-wg@w3.org>
Message-ID: <469F7C53.6010305@adida.net>

Steven Pemberton wrote:
> I think there are only 3 reasons why I think 'instanceof' is a bad choice:
> 

And to bolster this argument, I have some feedback from folks
implementing RDFa that "instanceof" is too programmatic, not HTML-y
enough. So I wouldn't be opposed to something else, though I can't say
I'm enthralled by any of the other options yet.

-Ben

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