- From: Karl Dubost <karl@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2007 16:25:10 +0900
Just for the record, http://ejohn.org/blog/microformats-in-firefox-3/ Open to comments and ideas. 3. Karl Dubost, W3C Said, February 1, 2007 @ 2:21 am Mike, is there a place where you collect the comments, feedback, etc? First times are very important and lead to cool things, great improvements and painful ties sometimes. So indeed when a browser is proposing new UI widgets directly related to the *semantics* of content, we have to be very careful. At first, I say ?cool, very cool!?. Then, taking a step back, I think what about the documents which have been created for the last 15 years before microformats effort existed. These documents contain class names which are probably and most certainly very similar to some values defined by microformats community. So there will be documents where a UI widget will be activated but not with the intended meaning. Basically it is changing the contract between the author and the reader by hijacking the intended semantics. There /was/ a solution for this profile attribute URIs with the URI of the used profile. Problem ahead it seems that some developers want to suppress this attribute in HTML document. I think there is a possible win-win here. The Mozilla UI widget could be activated only when the right URI (profile attribute) is really here. (a bit like the doctype switching). It will encourage people to use the right URIs, because the effect would be immediate, it will not hijack documents previously written. Everyone win. PS: Another switching mechanism could be used as well if appropriate. -- Karl Dubost - http://www.w3.org/People/karl/ W3C Conformance Manager, QA Activity Lead QA Weblog - http://www.w3.org/QA/ *** Be Strict To Be Cool ***
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