microformats, profiles, and taking back rel/class names [standardizedFieldValues-51]

Originally, values of @rel and @class were the author's choice,
much like HTTP path names. In both cases, well-known names
have cropped up. rel="tag" and class="vcard" are much like /robots.txt

I suppose the HTML WG has the right to "take back" @rel
and @class values, but I'm uneasy about it.

I still think URI-based extensibility mechanisms are useful,
but I don't have much of an argument to back my intuitions.
  http://www.w3.org/2007/05/14-html-wg-irc#T19-47-16

Sorry to be so brief; more later, I hope...


http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/issues.html#standardizedFieldValues-51
http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/issues.html#siteData-36

-- 
Dan Connolly, W3C http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/

Received on Monday, 16 July 2007 16:03:48 UTC