[whatwg] microformats incompatible with WebApps 1.0 ?

Karl Dubost karl at w3.org
Sun Dec 10 18:37:19 PST 2006


Le 6 déc. 2006 à 11:23, Ian Hickson a écrit :
> On Wed, 6 Dec 2006, Karl Dubost wrote:
>>>
>>> Interesting. That's something that currently can only really be done
>>> with tables, <output>, and hyperlinks; I wonder if we should add a
>>> fourth way that is more convenient for Microformat-like data.
>>
>> And it's needed in many cases.
>
> See my later e-mail; Microformats.org has already solved this problem.

has solved *part* of this need for XHTML 1.0, HTML 4.01

WebApps 1.0 doesn't have profiles attribute, and then can't be used  
for microformats.
http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/

I thought it was. Is there a record of this decision somewhere or the  
rationale behind it?


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