- From: Dan Brickley <danbri@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2003 06:06:51 -0500
- To: Graham Klyne <gk@ninebynine.org>
- Cc: Jeremy Carroll <jjc@hplb.hpl.hp.com>, w3c-rdfcore-wg@w3.org
* Graham Klyne <gk@ninebynine.org> [2003-11-06 10:41+0000] > > At this stage of the game, if we choose to make any substantive changes in > response to these comments I think they should be simple excisions. > > I could see removing the preference for the first Alt as an excision. Or > simply removing Alt all together? There's nothing special about rdf:Alt > that users couldn't define their own vocabulary for it. (Personally, I > think Alt is rather like the human appendix: of little practical value and > a potential source of inflammation.) rdf:Alt is embarrasing junk. I all too frequently find myself talking with implementors who are good-heartedly taking our specs at face value and try to use it. Wish I'd had the energy to argue against it at a more timely time. A deprecatory sentence (in which spec?) might do the job... Dan
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