- From: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2009 11:30:48 +0300
- To: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Cc: Shane McCarron <shane@aptest.com>, Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc>, Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>, Manu Sporny <msporny@digitalbazaar.com>, HTMLWG WG <public-html@w3.org>, RDFa mailing list <public-rdf-in-xhtml-tf@w3.org>
On Sep 22, 2009, at 10:31, Julian Reschke wrote: > The design principles also say "pave the cowpaths", yet HTML5 > defines an entirely new syntax. Another spec isn't a cowpath. Significant existing usage is. Microdata has no prior usage. However, HTML+RDFa has very little existing usage in the grand scheme of things. Moreover, to the extent syntax that looks like RDFa in text/html is used already, it is processed in a way that the draft doesn't describe: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-rdf-in-xhtml-tf/2009Sep/0124.html It seems to me that neither Microdata nor HTML+RDFa paves a cowpath. (Specifying Microformats with well-defined authoring conformance criteria and processing model would be paving the cowpath.) -- Henri Sivonen hsivonen@iki.fi http://hsivonen.iki.fi/
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