RE: Working Group Decision on ISSUE-120 rdfa-prefixes

Tab

I suggest you take up this Formal Objection with the RDFa WG which is now responsible for the impacted specification.

The HTML WG chairs are not going to do anything further with this objection.

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From: Tab Atkins Jr.
Sent: 22/10/2012 5:06 PM
To: Paul Cotton
Cc: HTML WG
Subject: Re: Working Group Decision on ISSUE-120 rdfa-prefixes

On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 2:09 PM, Paul Cotton <Paul.Cotton@microsoft.com> wrote:
>> Based on some private correspondence, please consider this to be a Formal Objection.
>
> We have recorded this formal objection to the WG decision on ISSUE-120 at:
> http://dev.w3.org/html5/status/formal-objection-status.html#ISSUE-120
>
> Do you wish to maintain this Formal Objection?  If so then we will keep it on this list so that it can be presented to the W3C Director at the next transition of the HTML5 specification.  If not please let us know and we will drop it from the list.

Apologies for not seeing this message; I have HTMLWG email currently
filtering to auto-archive.

To the best of my knowledge, nothing has changed to address my
original complaint, so yes, my formal objection stands.


On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 11:53 AM, Paul Cotton <Paul.Cotton@microsoft.com> wrote:
> I note that the specification that ISSUE-120 [1] referred to is now the responsibility of the RDFa WG.  See the charter at http://www.w3.org/2012/09/rdfa-wg-charter.html
>
> Therefore I recommend that we should leave the disposition of this Formal Objection up to the RDFa WG and the original author of the objection.
>
> /paulc
>
> [1] http://www.w3.org/html/wg/tracker/issues/120

As long as the RDFa WG actually records my formal objection and
responds to it appropriately, this is fine.

(I don't hold much hope for anything good happening here, given the
existing strong resistance to any change in RDFa to make it reflect
reality and clear authoring experience, but still, one might as well
observe the formalities.)

~TJ