- From: Kingsley Idehen <kidehen@openlinksw.com>
- Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2009 10:05:16 -0500
- To: Mark Birbeck <mark.birbeck@webbackplane.com>
- CC: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>, Sam Ruby <rubys@intertwingly.net>, Dan Brickley <danbri@danbri.org>, Michael Bolger <michael@michaelbolger.net>, public-rdfa@w3.org, RDFa mailing list <public-rdf-in-xhtml-tf@w3.org>, Tim Berners-Lee <timbl@w3.org>, Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>, Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
Mark Birbeck wrote: > [SNIP] > > As I said before, RDFa can already be used with HTML5, by anyone who > wants to do so, and provided that HTML5 remains backwards compatible > with HTML 4, it will continue to be usable. > > The heart of the matter, in a nutshell. HTML5 needs to be backward compatible with HTML4, the RDFa story is sort of incidental. Ironically, I sense an inverse thread developing around the virtues of breaking HTML5 and HTML4 backward compatibility :-( > So it sounds to me like we have the best of both worlds; those who > want to use RDFa -- such as a number of UK government projects, > Yahoo!, etc., etc. -- can continue to do so. Those who think it's the > creation of the devil are free to avoid it. ;) > Amen! :-) > Regards, > > Mark > > -- Regards, Kingsley Idehen Weblog: http://www.openlinksw.com/blog/~kidehen President & CEO OpenLink Software Web: http://www.openlinksw.com
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