- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2008 12:12:21 +0200
- To: Steven Pemberton <steven.pemberton@cwi.nl>
- CC: Shane McCarron <shane@aptest.com>, Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>, "Henry S. Thompson" <ht@inf.ed.ac.uk>, Jonathan Rees <jar@creativecommons.org>, "www-tag@w3.org WG" <www-tag@w3.org>, XHTML WG <public-xhtml2@w3.org>
Steven Pemberton wrote: > ... >> I think it's an issue that needs to be discussed and resolved anyway. > > Well, as Shane suggests, that's what the hypertext coordination group > (HCG) is there for. As Shane pointed out RDFa has gone through the W3C > process, which includes announcing last call to the HCG, and making sure > that groups register interest in commenting. Understood. In this case, I think this is a problem that was missed during last call. Does that mean there's no way to change it, and HTML5 needs to either adopt it or use a different notation? > ... > Well, RDFa is being implemented as we speak too. At least RDFa followed > process and made sure that we had agreement on features before > implementing them. Ignoring W3C process and then saying "it's > implemented already, we can't change it now" is a guaranteed way to > create this sort of problem. > ... I'm not going to defend the way the HTML WG does its work, as I happen to agree with this one. The issue is that that point of view doesn't help fixing the problem. >> Which is great. I think that getting RDFa to work well in HTML4 is >> very important; I'm personally looking forward to get HTML4 documents >> including RDFa to successfully validate (even if I need to provide a >> different doctype). > > In the meantime you can use the XHTML+RDFa doctype to get it to validate. Understood, but not really helpful. I personally like XHTML and use it everywhere where compatibility with IE is a non-issue (such as an intermediate format, or when I really don't care about IE users). But in the real world, people are stuck with HTML, and thus it would be good to have a convincing RDFa-in-HTML story. That would also help driving the HTML5 discussion. BR, Julian
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