- From: Dan Brickley <danbri@danbri.org>
- Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2013 23:41:08 +0100
- To: Jarno van Driel <jarno@quantumspork.nl>
- Cc: public-vocabs@w3.org
On 10 June 2013 21:47, Jarno van Driel <jarno@quantumspork.nl> wrote: > Can anybody tell me whatever happened to the Breadcrumb proposal > (http://www.w3.org/wiki/WebSchemas/Breadcrumbs)? > > Isn't it about time something is done about the current state of the > schema.org breadcrumb property? It seems crazy to me to keep > suggesting to add new items to schema.org if we can't fix what's > already there - It's getting tiresome to keep falling back to the > data-vocabulary.org breadcrumb because the schema.org version has been > put on ice. Very fair question. Here's the core of the problem as I understand it: * The markup requirement is roughly that consumers want: i) an ordered list ii) of anchor URL / text pairs. * Representing this explicitly in Microdata + RDFa is quite heavy markup (esp RDFa whose output is formally unordered) * An alternate design would be simply to indicate the markup area that contains breadcrumbs and acknowledge that consumers will re-parse this * Doing so would work differently in RDFa and Microdata, since the value of a Microdata property is never structured markup. I don't think these are insurmountable problems, and agree that we should get this moving again. There's a lot of breadcrumb markup out there... Dan
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