[whatwg] Ghosts from the past and the semantic Web

• From: Ben Adida <ben@adida.net>
• Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 09:24:43 -0700
• Message-ID: <48B6D14B.8020001@adida.net>

Tab Atkins Jr. wrote:
> Those folks must *really* hate microformats, then, as they pack *all* of
> their semantics into @class.

No, the conflict was about putting URIs and CURIEs into attributes that
were previously free-form and thus could cause confusion.

And it was a good argument, we are introducing something new, and thus
the new attributes make sense.

-Ben

Received on Thursday, 28 August 2008 09:24:43 UTC