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Bug 10160 - Jack Bauer’s name is a poor example of using meta, as the content is already present
Summary: Jack Bauer’s name is a poor example of using meta, as the content is already ...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: pre-LC1 HTML Microdata (editor: Ian Hickson) (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: HTML WG Bugzilla archive list
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
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Reported: 2010-07-14 07:20 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2010-10-05 13:03 UTC (History)
6 users (show)

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Description contributor 2010-07-14 07:20:57 UTC 
Section: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/complete.html#examples-1

Comment:
Jack Bauer’s name is a poor example of using meta, as the content is already
present

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Comment 1 Oli Studholme 2010-07-14 07:38:59 UTC 
As Jack’s name is already in the content, it would be better to mark it up directly:

<h1 itemprop="fn n"><span itemprop="given-name">Jack</span> <span itemprop="family-name">Bauer</span></h1>

An alternative <meta> example might be:

<div itemprop="n" lang="ja">
  <meta itemprop="given-name" content="ジャック">
  <meta itemprop="family-name" content="バウアー">
 </div>

Or:

<meta itemprop="education" content="Master of Science degree in Criminology and Law">
Comment 2 Oli Studholme 2010-07-19 04:01:29 UTC 
My examples had some errors (missing n’s itemscope). here are the corrected versions:

<h1 itemprop="fn"><span itemprop="n" itemscope><span itemprop="given-name">Jack</span> <span
itemprop="family-name">Bauer</span></span></h1>

An alternative <meta> example might be:

<div itemprop="n" itemscope lang="ja">
  <meta itemprop="given-name" content="ジャック">
  <meta itemprop="family-name" content="バウアー">
 </div>
Comment 3 Andreas Kuckartz 2010-07-21 11:09:05 UTC 
A less controversial fictional or real figure than "Jack Bauer" should be used. If necessary I will raise that issue separately.
Comment 4 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2010-09-08 06:59:44 UTC 
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Status: Accepted
Change Description: see diff given below
Rationale: I wonder why I did that. How weird.

Regarding comment 3, please file separate bugs for each issue.