[whatwg] Ghosts from the past and the semantic Web

[Kristof Zelechovski]

Oops, now I have to back off.  Wisdom is not something you can understand;
it is the ability to learn and use knowledge.  There is no way you can
accept wisdom because it is partly innate and partly acquired by strenuous
mental exercise.  I got confused myself.  Shame on me.
Chris

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[mailto:whatwg-bounces at lists.whatwg.org] On Behalf Of Kristof Zelechovski
Sent: Friday, August 29, 2008 7:52 PM
To: 'Ben Adida'; 'Greg Houston'
Cc: whatwg at lists.whatwg.org; 'Eduard Pascual'; 'Shannon'
Subject: Re: [whatwg] Ghosts from the past and the semantic Web

I think WHATWG is open to wisdom from outside.  However, accepting wisdom
makes no sense, wisdom should be understood and rationally implemented.  You
have confused wisdom and faith.  And wisdom is about how things work or can
work, not about how you spell this and that.
The proposition was about allowing a generic attribute name scheme "meta-*",
not about allowing one or more attributes.
Chris

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[mailto:whatwg-bounces at lists.whatwg.org] On Behalf Of Ben Adida
Sent: Friday, August 29, 2008 6:46 PM
To: Greg Houston
Cc: whatwg at lists.whatwg.org; Kristof Zelechovski; Eduard Pascual; Shannon
Subject: Re: [whatwg] Ghosts from the past and the semantic Web


So it seems you agree with the principles of adding one (or more)
attributes. But the requirement here, for Creative Commons and Digital
Bazaar and the UK National Archives and ... is to get proper RDF in
there. So once you agree with the general principle, why re-invent
something yet again? Does everything about HTML5 have to be invented
here, or can some wisdom from outside be accepted, too?

-Ben