Re: RDFa Last Call Comment: Better name than 'instanceof' is needed

Shane McCarron wrote:
> We cannot use @type I don't think - it is already used in XHTML / XHTML 
> 2 in all sorts of ways - so it would be in conflict in a global 
> attribute.  Sorry!
> 
> Elias Torres wrote:
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>> Dan Brickley wrote:
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>>> I prefer 'typeof' to 'instanceof'. I prefer 'type' to 'typeof'. I 
>>> suspect (monolingually) that single words may be preferable to 
>>> compounds, from an internationalisation perspective.
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>> +1 type > typeof > instanceof.
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>> I'm sure it was mentioned before, but what about @kind ?
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>> -Elias
> 

I know of type being used. I was just repeating the same line of 
preference that Dan Brickley had stated.

-Elias

Received on Monday, 24 March 2008 17:22:10 UTC