- From: Shane McCarron <ahby@aptest.com>
- Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2013 11:09:18 -0500
- To: Andrea Urbini <andrea.urbini@unifi.it>
- Cc: Philip Taylor <P.Taylor@rhul.ac.uk>, www-validator@w3.org
- Message-ID: <CAOk_reFszu-AiAcJMSSxDWvZFKJJcLf4hUAL=xDZ6fuVCZPNpw@mail.gmail.com>
Yes, that's a fine strategy. On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 8:05 AM, Andrea Urbini <andrea.urbini@unifi.it>wrote: > Hi. Could you give me an answer to my question below so I know if I > correctly understand your previous answers? > Thanks > Andrea Urbini > > > > At 09:51 17/07/2013, Andrea Urbini wrote: > > Thank you Shane and Philip for your answers. So currently I could already > adopt HTML5 in my HTML4 documents just because the HTML5 subset relative to > HTML4 is officialy accepted? > Regards > Andrea Urbini > > > > > At 19:37 11/07/2013, Shane McCarron wrote: > > Sure. And I am of course a big fan. Anyone can use XHTML+RDFa 1.1 . I > was just towing the party line. HTML5 is not done, but the HTML5 subset > that is HTML4 parsing rules is consistent with HTML4 and permits RDFa 1.1. > > I will undertake to ensure that HTML 4.01+RDFa 1.1 DTD is updated, but we > can't take a position of recommending its use since it has been officially > deprecated in a recommendation. > > > On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 12:13 PM, Philip Taylor <P.Taylor@rhul.ac.uk> > wrote: > > Shane McCarron wrote: > > The W3C working group responsible for that document removed that advice > > in the recommendation when it was published. That DTD is not supported, > > and as far as I know is not up to date. Sorry. > Oh. That is rather disappointing. One should not be pushed into prematurely > adopting a work-in-progress (HTML 5) simply in order both to be able to > use two fully-ratified standards (RDFa and HTML 4.01). Would it not be > better to recommend XHTML+RDFa 1.1, as specified at : > http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/REC-xhtml-rdfa-20120607/ > linked from : > http://www.w3.org/standards/techs/html#w3c_all > which /is/ a fully-ratified standard ? Philip Taylor > > > -- > Shane P. McCarron > Managing Director, Applied Testing and Technology, Inc. > > > > > Andrea Urbini > Università degli Studi di Firenze > Biblioteca di Scienze Tecnologiche, sede di Agraria > P.le Cascine, 18 - 50144 Firenze - tel. 055.3288207/234, fax 055.3288394 > Coordinamento Centrale Biblioteche > Via G. Capponi, 7 - 50121 Firenze - tel. 055.2756559 > e-mail: urbini@unifi.it > http://www.sba.unifi.it > > ** > > ** > > Andrea Urbini > Università degli Studi di Firenze > Biblioteca di Scienze Tecnologiche, sede di Agraria > P.le Cascine, 18 - 50144 Firenze - tel. 055.3288207/234, fax 055.3288394 > Coordinamento Centrale Biblioteche > Via G. Capponi, 7 - 50121 Firenze - tel. 055.2756559 > e-mail: urbini@unifi.it > http://www.sba.unifi.it > -- Shane P. McCarron Managing Director, Applied Testing and Technology, Inc.
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