- From: Martin McEvoy <martin@weborganics.co.uk>
- Date: Mon, 07 Dec 2009 22:39:25 +0000
- To: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- CC: public-html <public-html@w3.org>
Ian Hickson wrote: > On Mon, 7 Dec 2009, Aryeh Gregor wrote: > >> On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 6:22 PM, Toby Inkster <tai@g5n.co.uk> wrote: >> >>> Why is it not conceivably reusable outside of HTML? >>> >> Well, okay, let me back down a bit on that. It's conceivably reusable >> outside of HTML, yes. But no more or less than, say, <video>. It's >> plausible that other specifications would want to include videos. For >> instance, SVG currently allows embedding bitmap images, and it might >> make sense for it to allow embedding videos too. The same goes for many >> other parts of HTML, even <img>. >> > > It's actually even worse than those two, because the microdata processing > model makes certain assumptions about the vocabulary. For SVG to reuse > itemscope=""/itemprop=""/etc, the processing model would have to be > rewritten to define how it works in SVG, Hmm I don't know if that is an accurate assertion... .."The semantics of the RDFa attributes are the same as for XHTML"... http://www.w3.org/QA/2008/12/rdfa_and_svg_tiny_and_the_rdfa.html There are differences but not much ;) -- Martin McEvoy WebOrganics http://weborganics.co.uk/ Add to address book: http://transformr.co.uk/hcard/http://weborganics.co.uk/
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