- From: Kingsley Idehen <kidehen@openlinksw.com>
- Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2009 18:05:00 -0500
- To: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- CC: Kjetil Kjernsmo <kjetil@kjernsmo.net>, Karl Dubost <karl@la-grange.net>, public-rdfa@w3.org, RDFa mailing list <public-rdf-in-xhtml-tf@w3.org>, Sam Ruby <rubys@intertwingly.net>, Dan Brickley <danbri@danbri.org>, Michael Bolger <michael@michaelbolger.net>, Tim Berners-Lee <timbl@w3.org>, Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>
Ian Hickson wrote: > On Fri, 13 Feb 2009, Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote: > > [SNIP] > If Amazon couldn't even be bothered to add a class for "price" in the last > decade, why do we believe they will add RDFa? > > Great question. Because RDFa isn't a decade old. It's taken a decade to get to the point where making statements for the RDF model is simple and unobtrusive enough for it to happen within HTML. In a nutshell, what wasn't cost-effective to Amazon over the last 10 years, no longer necessarily holds today. But for arguments sakes, lets assume Amazon doesn't use RDFa, so what? That's no different than your earlier analogy re. Google. The Web is not about behemoths, it about a democratic space with multi tiered dexterity along the following vectors: 1. Data 2. Information 3. Knowledge. The Web was bootstrapped via point 2 (as an information space), but it needs the trinity above to stay true to its essence. -- Regards, Kingsley Idehen Weblog: http://www.openlinksw.com/blog/~kidehen President & CEO OpenLink Software Web: http://www.openlinksw.com
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