- From: Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2010 08:45:27 -0600
- To: Manu Sporny <msporny@digitalbazaar.com>
- 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 Wed, 2010-02-24 at 21:11 -0500, Manu Sporny wrote: > 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? Technically, I need to think thru this on-all-elements stuff, but my main concern is: closing an issue means "we're done; we don't plan to work on it more unless/until somebody brings up information that we haven't considered." But you clearly plan to work on it more, based on information that you _have_ considered. I can't make sense of that. -- Dan Connolly, W3C http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/ gpg D3C2 887B 0F92 6005 C541 0875 0F91 96DE 6E52 C29E
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