- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2008 21:44:15 +0000 (UTC)
On Tue, 9 Sep 2008, Ian Hickson wrote: > On Tue, 9 Sep 2008, Ben Adida wrote: > > Ian Hickson wrote: > > > Note however that I do not expect the namespace issue to materially affect > > > the RDFa feedback; I'm sure there are many ways of addressing the problem > > > space of RDF that do not involve having to use namespace prefixes. > > > > You would be incorrect to make this assumption. > > > > Much work has already been done on RDFa in XHTML1.1, and to have the > > HTML5 approach do something completely incompatible would be a serious > > problem. > > Unless it is expected that RDFa usage in XHTML 1.1 is going to be higher > than whatever we put into HTML5, losses from incompatibility can be offset > by gains in usability. Naturally though, we shouldn't ...introduce gratuitous differences that don't have a significant benefit. I guess I thought it went without saying. ;-) -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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