- From: Martin McEvoy <martin@weborganics.co.uk>
- Date: Wed, 05 Aug 2009 18:49:43 +0100
- To: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- CC: Philip Taylor <pjt47@cam.ac.uk>, RDFa Developers <public-rdf-in-xhtml-tf@w3.org>
Julian Reschke wrote: > 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, I am a little dubious about what *other* parties means, does that mean anything other than a web browser? > which is exactly the use case HTML5 forbids data-* to use for. > > BR, Julian > Thanks -- Martin McEvoy http://weborganics.co.uk/
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