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

> On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 2:30 PM, Karl Dubost <karl@la-grange.net> wrote:
> >
> > Le 16 oct. 2009 à 11:40, Henri Sivonen a écrit :
> >>
> >> An example of my concern about RDFa is that in uses syntax that in 
> Gecko,
> >> WebKit and Presto parses to a different DOM Level 2 representation in
> >> text/html and application/xhtml+xml. I can assess whether a 
> proposal has
> >> this property even if the proposal is solving a problem I wouldn't
> >> personally pursue solving as a priority. This touches on my 
> activities as a
> >> parser developer.
> >
> > Are there (or do you know) plans to actually implement into some of the
> > browsers (only one class of products) either microdata, rdfa or 
> microformats
> > in the core parsing engine?
> >
> > I know already some implementations of rdfa and microformats, but as
> > external parser.
>
> I'm planning on getting microdata implemented in Firefox. We'd do this
> by implementing the DOM APIs described in the spec, as well as
> implement hooks so that it'd be easy to create Firefox extensions that
> react to microdata formats.

I'm assuming that you would do so if Microdata were separated out into 
its own document. Would that be a correct assumption?


>
> We already have an addon that adds microformats support to Firefox[1],
> but I'm not quite sure what that support looks like.
>
> [1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4106
>
> / Jonas

Shelley

Received on Sunday, 18 October 2009 15:52:50 UTC