- From: Manu Sporny <msporny@digitalbazaar.com>
- Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2010 21:11:36 -0500
- To: Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>
- CC: Sam Ruby <rubys@intertwingly.net>, Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>, www-archive@w3.org, "Michael(tm) Smith" <mike@w3.org>, Philippe Le Hegaret <plh@w3.org>, Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>, Tantek Çelik <tantek@cs.stanford.edu>
On 02/24/2010 11:35 AM, Dan Connolly wrote: > "There has been talk here (DC-land) of > moving towards more strongly recommending RDFa as a strategy for > HTML-inline metadata. Currently XHTML is the only option there. If > profile is taken away, that might force the migration to happen more > hastily." > -- http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2010Jan/0576.html > > If there's no community depending on head/@profile in HTML 5, maybe > I'll just let this go. Hi Dan, Just wanted to clarify a couple of things in this discussion because I don't want us to lose sight of the significant event that just occurred. I think the situation is that there could be two, if not three metadata communities that would love to see this @profile-everywhere proposal succeed in HTML WG. The @profile proposal that Julian, Tantek and I are proposing would achieve several long-standing goals: - Preserve @profile on <HEAD> in HTML5 (for GRDDL and Dublin Core legacy documents). - Clarify the HTML4.01 definition of @profile with a number of errata that is already authored. (to ensure there is no mistake on how to use @profile in HTML5). - Enable the use of @profile on all elements (which does have support in both the Microformats community /and/ the RDFa community). Tantek outlined how this @profile proposal would lead to a more follow-your-nose-ish version of Microformats, which is a very good thing. The RDFa community has also discussed how this new mechanism could replace (in a very good way) a number of mechanisms that are currently being proposed for RDFa 1.1. All this with very minimal effort, AFAICT. I've committed to editing the HTML WG FPWD of the HTML5 Metadata Profiles spec. Are there concerns of yours that extend past what I've said above? -- manu -- Manu Sporny (skype: msporny, twitter: manusporny) President/CEO - Digital Bazaar, Inc. blog: PaySwarming Goes Open Source http://blog.digitalbazaar.com/2010/02/01/bitmunk-payswarming/
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