- From: Manu Sporny <msporny@digitalbazaar.com>
- Date: Tue, 05 May 2009 23:32:18 -0400
bcc: Public RDFa Task Force mailing list (but not speaking as a member) Thinking out loud... It seems as though there is potential here, based on the recent IRC conversations about the topic[1] and the use cases[2] posted by Ian, that WHATWG's use cases/requirements, and therefore solution, could diverge from both the Microformats community as well as the RDFa community use cases/requirements/solution. There should be a requirement, as Microformats and XHTML1.1+RDFa have required, that a potential solution to this issue should be compatible with both the Microformats and RDFa approaches. This would mean, at a high-level: - Not creating ambiguous cases for parser writers. - Not triggering output in a Microformats/RDFa parser as a side-effect of WHATWG micro-data markup. - Not creating an environment where WHATWG micro-data markup breaks or eliminates Microformats/RDFa markup. I think these are implied since HTML5 has gone to great lengths to provide backward compatibility. However, since I'm not clear on the details of how this community operates, I thought it better to be explicit about the requirement. -- manu [1]http://krijnhoetmer.nl/irc-logs/whatwg/20090430#l-693 [2]http://lists.whatwg.org/htdig.cgi/whatwg-whatwg.org/2009-April/019374.html -- Manu Sporny President/CEO - Digital Bazaar, Inc. blog: A Collaborative Distribution Model for Music http://blog.digitalbazaar.com/2009/04/04/collaborative-music-model/
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