- From: Sam Ruby <rubys@intertwingly.net>
- Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2010 06:57:47 -0400
- To: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- CC: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>, HTMLwg WG <public-html@w3.org>
On 03/30/2010 10:14 PM, Ian Hickson wrote: > On Tue, 30 Mar 2010, Sam Ruby wrote: >> >> License information is an example of annotation that is added to web >> pages which is meant to be parsed software that is independent of the >> site. Some believe that RDFa is the way to capture such annotation. >> Some believe that Microdata is the way to capture such. I don't happen >> to believe that there is one true way. > > We're far more likely to make the Web a useful place if there is one true > way, whatever that way is. > > Not having one true way is the same as not having interoperability. That's > a bad thing. It's what working groups like this one are intended to > prevent. If the use case for "ISSUE-41 Distributed Extensibility" > mechanisms is explicitly to make it possible to do things that don't have > interoperability, then I for one would consider that a step backwards. > That's an anti-goal. Can we agree that "the one true way" is RDFa? Profile attributes? Any of the following: http://wiki.whatwg.org/wiki/FAQ#HTML5_should_support_a_way_for_anyone_to_invent_new_elements.21 Looking at a mere few dozen pages, it is clear to me that authors as a whole don't respect our dominion over their ability to be creative. I do believe that we can help channel things a bit, but outright outlawing things that are popular and demonstrably useful is as likely to be as effective as the eighteenth amendment to the US consitituion was. - Sam Ruby
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