<div dir="ltr">On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 5:22 PM, Bonner, Matt <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:matt.bonner@hp.com">matt.bonner@hp.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hola,<br>
<br>
I see that the Creative Commons has proposed additions to HTML<br>
to support licenses (ccREL):<br>
<a href="http://www.w3.org/Submission/2008/SUBM-ccREL-20080501/" target="_blank">http://www.w3.org/Submission/2008/SUBM-ccREL-20080501/</a><br>
<br>
As an example, they offer:<br>
<br>
<div about="<a href="http://lessig.org/blog/" target="_blank">http://lessig.org/blog/</a>"<br>
xmlns:cc="<a href="http://creativecommons.org/ns#" target="_blank">http://creativecommons.org/ns#</a>"><br>
This page, by<br>
<a property="cc:attributionName" rel="cc:attributionURL"<br>
href="<a href="http://lessig.org/" target="_blank">http://lessig.org/</a>"><br>
Lawrence Lessig<br>
</a>,<br>
is licensed under a<br>
<a rel="license" href="<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/" target="_blank">http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/</a>"><br>
Creative Commons Attribution License<br>
</a>.<br>
</div><br>
<br>
Unless I missed something in the HTML5 spec, at the least this would add<br>
the "property" attribute to <a>. Wouldn't ccREL be expressed better<br>
using <link> instead of <a>?<br>
<br>
Matt<br>
<font color="#888888">--<br>
Matt Bonner<br>
Hewlett-Packard Company<br>
</font></blockquote></div><br>The whole thing would be best expressed as a microformat, as the entire thing can be made just as machine- and human-readable without having to introduce an entire new addition to html. I think someone is a little confused about the important of CC...<br>
<br>(Note: the someone is not you, Matt, but the drafters of this proposal. Also, I love CC as much as the next guy, but there's absolutely no reason to extend html to accomodate it, as everything they want to express can be done in existing html and formatted as a microformat.)<br>
<br>~TJ<br></div>