- From: Noah Mendelsohn <nrm@arcanedomain.com>
- Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2011 11:17:52 -0500
- To: "www-tag@w3.org" <www-tag@w3.org>
- CC: Paul Cotton <Paul.Cotton@microsoft.com>, Sam Ruby <rubys@intertwingly.net>, Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>
I suggest that it may be worthwhile for the TAG to actively track HTML WG progress in resolving their ISSUE 120 [1]. Are there any TAG members willing to volunteer to follow this, and to provide us a brief status report at the F2F? (If I don't get any volunteers, I'll pick a victim, as given our earlier work on CURIEs, I do think this is something we should be tracking.) HTML WG issue 120 results from a bug [2] that expressed concerns about the prefixing mechanism used by RDFa. Quoting (selectively) from the issue page: --------Begin quote from Issue Description----- HTML+RDFa uses indirect binding of prefixes, similar in spirit and syntax to Namespaces in XML. Some argue that this is intrinsically too complicated to be a good design for a Web technology: "The use of prefixes that can be bound to arbitrary strings then combined with other strings to form a third set of strings is IMHO too complicated for a technology intended for broad Web deployment (e.g. in text/html)... [...] This bug is not arguing against RDFa. It's arguing against a particular design decision in RDFa that is not intrinsic to RDFa's design goals." [...] The scope of this issue is to determine whether to remove or replace the prefix mechanism of HTML+RDFa, or leave it as-is." --------End quote from Issue Description----- There was a call for change proposals [3] with a due date of 19 January 2011, and two proposals were submitted: Proposal [4], as I understand it, removes support for RDFa prefix processing from HTML5; proposal [5] maintains support for prefixes in HTML5, and suggests changing the RDFa documentation to put more emphasis on use of RDFa without prefixes, to better explain issues relating to copy/paste, etc. [1] http://www.w3.org/html/wg/tracker/issues/120 [2] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html-wg-issue-tracking/2010Sep/0014.html [3] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2010Dec/0065.html [4] http://wiki.whatwg.org/wiki/Change_Proposal_for_ISSUE-120 [5] http://www.w3.org/html/wg/wiki/ChangeProposals/RDFaPrefixesNoChange
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