- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Wed, 05 Aug 2009 19:03:00 +0200
- To: martin@weborganics.co.uk
- CC: Philip Taylor <pjt47@cam.ac.uk>, RDFa Developers <public-rdf-in-xhtml-tf@w3.org>
Martin McEvoy wrote: > Hello again Julian, > > Julian Reschke wrote: >> I thought the purpose was to expose additional data to clients, >> independent of the page? > > No the purpose is to convey the unique semantics/meaning/characteristics > of the page, the fact that it can be read by something other than a web > browser is secondary I think, and also a bonus, If the data is there why > cant it be used by say a search engine a parser that converts the > information to RDF? > ... The purpose is to convey the semantics to *other* parties, which is exactly the use case HTML5 forbids data-* to use for. BR, Julian
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