[whatwg] RDFa
Ian Hickson
ian at hixie.ch
Tue Sep 9 14:44:15 PDT 2008
On Tue, 9 Sep 2008, Ian Hickson wrote:
> On Tue, 9 Sep 2008, Ben Adida wrote:
> > Ian Hickson wrote:
> > > Note however that I do not expect the namespace issue to materially affect
> > > the RDFa feedback; I'm sure there are many ways of addressing the problem
> > > space of RDF that do not involve having to use namespace prefixes.
> >
> > You would be incorrect to make this assumption.
> >
> > Much work has already been done on RDFa in XHTML1.1, and to have the
> > HTML5 approach do something completely incompatible would be a serious
> > problem.
>
> Unless it is expected that RDFa usage in XHTML 1.1 is going to be higher
> than whatever we put into HTML5, losses from incompatibility can be offset
> by gains in usability. Naturally though, we shouldn't
...introduce gratuitous differences that don't have a significant benefit.
I guess I thought it went without saying. ;-)
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