- From: Tantek Çelik <tantek@cs.stanford.edu>
- Date: Sun, 8 Jan 2012 14:59:24 -0800
- To: Kingsley Idehen <kidehen@openlinksw.com>
- Cc: Dan Brickley <danbri@danbri.org>, public-xg-webid@w3.org
On Sun, Jan 8, 2012 at 14:27, Dan Brickley <danbri@danbri.org> wrote: > On 8 January 2012 19:57, Kingsley Idehen <kidehen@openlinksw.com> wrote: > >> Yes, and the platform vendors are presented with two choices re. structured >> data in HTML: >> >> 1. Microdata -- already supported by all the browser players The assertion is false. So far only Opera has claimed some support of microdata. >> and being >> exploited by search engine players, today To some degree by a Google/MS duopoly, but with mixed results compared to their support of: >> 2. RDFa . and a third choice: 3. microformats (which actually has had some direct support in Firefox for years, since version 3, and is usable via JS in all browsers via their DOMs' 'class' and 'rel' attribute interfaces). Here's a post with more data/details on adoption of microformats by publishers, search engines etc.: http://microformats.org/2010/07/08/microformats-org-at-5-hcards-rich-snippets And I'm curious why you didn't mention microformats, given that there's more public web adoption of it for known popular schemas (like that for a person, hCard) than all others such syntaxes put together. On the other hand, if your priority is a simpler solution for web authors/publishers for enhancing HTML with user profile information, I'm fairly certain hCard is the simplest existing working / widely deployed solution to date (an even simpler solution with microformats-2[1] is in development, but it's not widely deployed yet), and I'm more than happy to help with any questions about microformats, hCard, etc. Tantek [1] http://microformats.org/wiki/microformats-2 -- http://tantek.com/ - I made an HTML5 tutorial! http://tantek.com/html5
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