Comment on the RDFa API working draft

• From: Noah Mendelsohn <noah@arcanedomain.com>
• Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2010 10:50:09 -0400
• To: public-rdfa-wg@w3.org
• Message-ID: <4C9B6921.7090207@arcanedomain.com>

This is a comment on the RDFa API working draft of 23 September 2010 [1].

I suggest you try to avoid references to commercial products and 
organizations in the examples, e.g. "Amy has enriched her band's web-site 
to include Google Rich Snippets event information", and especially "Brian 
finds Amy's web-site through Google and opens the band's page."

Especially the latter seems completely inappropriate.  Wouldn't it be 
better, in an open standard, development of which is supported by many 
organizations including some of Google's competitors, to say "Brian uses a 
search engine to find Amy's web-site, and he opens the band's page."? 
Besides, if Google were to fade in importance, as Alta Vista did, the 
reference would become unnecessarily confusing to later readers.

Thank you.

Noah

[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/WD-rdfa-api-20100923/

Received on Thursday, 23 September 2010 14:51:06 UTC