Re: ISSUE-76: Need feedback on splitting Microdata into separate specification

Jonas Sicking wrote:
> ...
> Because IMHO they are an integral part of the HTML language. XHR for
> example is almost entirely language independent. There's certainly
> features that I'd like to see broken out of HTML5, such as the Window
> object, but given that microdata introduces new markup, I think
> breaking that out would be much more awkward. Another couple of

The same can be said about RDFa.

Unless the WG is prepared to decide on RDFa *or* Microdata, both 
extensions should get the same treatment.

> ...

BR, Julian

Received on Wednesday, 14 October 2009 18:02:09 UTC