[whatwg] RDFa statement consistency
Toby A Inkster
mail at tobyinkster.co.uk
Fri Aug 29 13:27:48 PDT 2008
Kristof Zelechovski wrote:
> The goal of the specification is to provide a set of rules that
> conformant
> user agents must obey out of the box, without any extensions.
> Features that
> are supposed to be ignored do not make good candidates for
> including in the
> specification, except as extensions to HTML that are explicitly
> supported.
The HTML 5 spec already includes the many features which browsers
currently (mostly) ignore - the <meta> tag, the "type" attribute on
most links and so on. The fact that HTML includes a <dfn> element
doesn't mean that every browser has to have a built in dictionary for
storing all the definitions people collect on the web, but the
element is there for those people who want to use it. Browsers
*could* do something useful with <dfn> if they liked, but none so far
seem to have done so.
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Toby A Inkster
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