[whatwg] header for JSON-LD ???

Dan Brickley danbri at google.com
Sun Jul 23 07:30:17 PDT 2017


Hypothetically, if search engines were to start picking up JSON-LD from
linked files, which link rel type would this group consider most
appropriate?

Dan

On 23 July 2017 at 06:12, Jeffrey Yasskin <jyasskin at chromium.org> wrote:

> 2¢: This list tends to disapprove of JSON-LD, so you should probably first
> run your proposal by a group that likes JSON-LD. Maybe
> public-rdf-comments at w3.org referenced from https://www.w3.org/TR/json-ld/?
> Or an issue against https://github.com/json-ld/json-ld.org?
>
> Jeffrey
>
> On Fri, Jul 21, 2017 at 2:21 PM, Michael A. Peters <mpeters at domblogger.net
> >
> wrote:
>
> > I am (finally) starting to implement JSON-LD on a site, it generates a
> lot
> > of data that is useless to the non-bot typical user.
> >
> > I'd prefer to only stick it in the head when the client is a crawler that
> > wants it.
> >
> > Wouldn't it be prudent if agents that want JSON-LD can send a
> standardized
> > header as part of their request so web apps can optionally choose to only
> > send the JSON-LD data to clients that want it? Seems it would be kinder
> to
> > mobile users on limited bandwidth if they didn't have to download a bunch
> > of JSON that is meaningless to them.
> >
> > Is this the right group to suggest that?
> >
>


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