- From: Dan Brickley <danbri@danbri.org>
- Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2010 22:13:16 +0200
- To: Mark Birbeck <mark.birbeck@webbackplane.com>
- Cc: public-rdfa <public-rdfa@w3.org>
On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 9:56 PM, Mark Birbeck <mark.birbeck@webbackplane.com> wrote: > Hi Dan, > > Great announcement! > > You seem to have sent this to the wrong list though: > >> I'd urge you all to go gently on that front for now, and focus instead >> more on how we can improve RDFa tooling and specs than on lobbying for >> improvements. > > RDFa enthusiasts have always been supportive of anyone looking to use RDFa. Yup, I was just suggesting ways of channeling the enthusiasm helpfully! Rather than David and co getting 100 versions of "your semantics are all wonky and did you consider using 'about='...". > You may be thinking back to when Google got a bit of a hard time when > they made their announcements about using RDFa, but the criticism they > received was from...well...from RDFers who didn't recognise a > gift-horse when it's galloping towards them, it's rider blowing a > bugle. Not the first nor the last time that people exploring RDF have been rewarded with a pile of "you got it wrong". I wasn't blaming the RDFa community especially here. > Yes, I know...I sound like a grumpy-old b*stard. But things like that > lodge in the mind.... > > Great news though. :) Yeah, makes me wish I had a spare server farm to process all this public graph data :) Dan
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