Re: [whatwg] RDFa statement consistency

2008-08-30 Thread Kristof Zelechovski
Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Julian Reschke Sent: Saturday, August 30, 2008 1:25 AM To: Henri Sivonen Cc: Ben Adida; whatwg@lists.whatwg.org; 'Manu Sporny'; Kristof Zelechovski Subject: Re: [whatwg] RDFa statement consistency I like GRDDL, too

Re: [whatwg] RDFa statement consistency

2008-08-29 Thread Kristof Zelechovski
PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Manu Sporny Sent: Friday, August 29, 2008 6:46 AM To: whatwg@lists.whatwg.org Subject: Re: [whatwg] RDFa statement consistency Kristof Zelechovski wrote: HTML5 is too crucial as a technology to allow arbitrary experimentation. Please refrain from making wildly opinionated

Re: [whatwg] RDFa statement consistency

2008-08-29 Thread Henri Sivonen
On Aug 29, 2008, at 00:29, Ben Adida wrote: Plus, consider the risk to HTML5: nothing. I don't believe that is the case. If I've understood history correctly, introducing Namespaces into XML was primarily a requirement stipulated by the RDF community. XML got Namespaces, but then at

Re: [whatwg] RDFa statement consistency

2008-08-29 Thread Julian Reschke
Henri Sivonen wrote: I don't believe that is the case. If I've understood history correctly, introducing Namespaces into XML was primarily a requirement stipulated by the RDF community. XML got Pointer, please? Namespaces, but then at least notable parts of the RDF community figured that

Re: [whatwg] RDFa statement consistency

2008-08-29 Thread Elliotte Harold
Henri Sivonen wrote: I like the GRDDL approach of seeing RDF there by looking at non-RDF things just right--with the modification that the person who wants to look just right is the one supplying the transform. There's a really simple algorithm for deciding whether to introduce a feature,

Re: [whatwg] RDFa statement consistency

2008-08-29 Thread Elliotte Harold
Julian Reschke wrote: Parts of the community are totally happy with them. You have got to be kidding me. I can't think of anyone who is totally happy with namespaces in XML. I can't even think of anybody who is happy with. The best I think anyone claims is tolerance. Even full-time XML

Re: [whatwg] RDFa statement consistency

2008-08-29 Thread Elliotte Harold
Kristof Zelechovski wrote: Do you think that HTML5 should allow arbitrary experimentation under the banner Let us just do it and we shall see? I don't think HTML 5 should allow arbitrary experimentation. That doesn't change the fact that the HTML 5 spec is full of arbitrary

Re: [whatwg] RDFa statement consistency

2008-08-29 Thread Julian Reschke
Elliotte Harold wrote: Julian Reschke wrote: Parts of the community are totally happy with them. You have got to be kidding me. I can't think of anyone who is totally happy with namespaces in XML. I can't even think of anybody who is happy with. The best I think anyone claims is tolerance.

Re: [whatwg] RDFa statement consistency

2008-08-29 Thread Ben Adida
Henri Sivonen wrote: Now we have people from the RDF community asking for CURIEs in HTML. No. I'm not from the RDF community. I am from Creative Commons. I represent Creative Commons at the W3C. I have done no research or active work on RDF, only on integrating RDF in HTML, because RDF was

Re: [whatwg] RDFa statement consistency

2008-08-29 Thread Kristof Zelechovski
supported. Chris -Original Message- From: Ben Adida [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 29, 2008 6:05 PM To: Henri Sivonen Cc: whatwg@lists.whatwg.org; Kristof Zelechovski; 'Manu Sporny' Subject: Re: [whatwg] RDFa statement consistency I'm getting mixed signals about the extent

Re: [whatwg] RDFa statement consistency

2008-08-29 Thread Ben Adida
Kristof Zelechovski wrote: The goal of the specification is to provide a set of rules that conformant user agents must obey out of the box, without any extensions. Features that are supposed to be ignored do not make good candidates for including in the specification, except as extensions to

Re: [whatwg] RDFa statement consistency

2008-08-29 Thread Henri Sivonen
On Aug 29, 2008, at 11:11, Julian Reschke wrote: Henri Sivonen wrote: I don't believe that is the case. If I've understood history correctly, introducing Namespaces into XML was primarily a requirement stipulated by the RDF community. XML got Pointer, please?

Re: [whatwg] RDFa statement consistency

2008-08-29 Thread Ian Hickson
On Fri, 29 Aug 2008, Elliotte Harold wrote: I fully expect to be revisiting this whole mess in 5-10 years to come up with a real spec, after we've seen which of the experiments succeeded and which failed. Then again maybe we'll just decide that specs don't matter, and live with whatever

Re: [whatwg] RDFa statement consistency

2008-08-29 Thread Toby A Inkster
Kristof Zelechovski wrote: The goal of the specification is to provide a set of rules that conformant user agents must obey out of the box, without any extensions. Features that are supposed to be ignored do not make good candidates for including in the specification, except as extensions

Re: [whatwg] RDFa statement consistency

2008-08-29 Thread Kristof Zelechovski
PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Toby A Inkster Sent: Friday, August 29, 2008 10:28 PM To: whatwg@lists.whatwg.org Subject: Re: [whatwg] RDFa statement consistency Kristof Zelechovski wrote: The goal of the specification is to provide a set of rules that conformant user agents must

Re: [whatwg] RDFa statement consistency

2008-08-29 Thread Dan Brickley
Henri Sivonen wrote: On Aug 29, 2008, at 11:11, Julian Reschke wrote: Henri Sivonen wrote: I don't believe that is the case. If I've understood history correctly, introducing Namespaces into XML was primarily a requirement stipulated by the RDF community. XML got Pointer, please?

Re: [whatwg] RDFa statement consistency

2008-08-29 Thread Julian Reschke
Henri Sivonen wrote: If I've understood history correctly, introducing Namespaces into XML was primarily a requirement stipulated by the RDF community. XML got Pointer, please? http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/semantic-web/2007Dec/0116.html Thanks. I like GRDDL, too, but it has

Re: [whatwg] RDFa statement consistency

2008-08-28 Thread Manu Sporny
Kristof Zelechovski wrote: I think RDFa has already happened: you know what it is and how to use it. Yes, you are correct - RDFa has, more or less, already happened. It will be an official W3C standard in the next couple of months and will be supported in XHTML1.1 and XHTML2. Some are currently

Re: [whatwg] RDFa statement consistency

2008-08-28 Thread Kristof Zelechovski
PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Manu Sporny Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2008 11:06 PM To: whatwg@lists.whatwg.org Subject: Re: [whatwg] RDFa statement consistency Kristof Zelechovski wrote: I think RDFa has already happened: you know what it is and how to use it. Yes, you are correct

Re: [whatwg] RDFa statement consistency

2008-08-28 Thread Anne van Kesteren
On Thu, 28 Aug 2008 23:29:22 +0200, Ben Adida [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kristof Zelechovski wrote: HTML5 is too crucial as a technology to allow arbitrary experimentation. Arbitrary? Plus, consider the risk to HTML5: nothing. Browsers don't need to do anything (except make the attributes

Re: [whatwg] RDFa statement consistency

2008-08-28 Thread Ben Adida
Anne van Kesteren wrote: FWIW, when considering language complexity, just considering whether it impacts user agents seems naïve. Eg, it impacts people reading the specification, people writing documentation, people writing books, etc. Fair enough. Doesn't SQL in the browser affect all of

Re: [whatwg] RDFa statement consistency

2008-08-28 Thread Kristof Zelechovski
form then?) Chris -Original Message- From: Ben Adida [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2008 11:55 PM To: Anne van Kesteren Cc: Kristof Zelechovski; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; 'Manu Sporny' Subject: Re: [whatwg] RDFa statement consistency though I agree with others

Re: [whatwg] RDFa statement consistency

2008-08-28 Thread Anne van Kesteren
On Thu, 28 Aug 2008 23:55:07 +0200, Ben Adida [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anne van Kesteren wrote: FWIW, when considering language complexity, just considering whether it impacts user agents seems naïve. Eg, it impacts people reading the specification, people writing documentation, people writing

Re: [whatwg] RDFa statement consistency

2008-08-28 Thread Kristof Zelechovski
'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [whatwg] RDFa statement consistency On Thu, 28 Aug 2008 23:55:07 +0200, Ben Adida [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anne van Kesteren wrote: Especially given the copy paste authors you want to enable this for, down the road. I'm confused. CopyPaste is meant to abstract

Re: [whatwg] RDFa statement consistency

2008-08-28 Thread Ben Adida
Anne van Kesteren wrote: SQL actually doesn't affect the HTML5 language, Isn't that nitpicking a bit? It's part of the feature-set that a browser would have to implement, part of the books that have to be written, etc..., right? I don't really think it makes sense to compare that feature to

Re: [whatwg] RDFa statement consistency

2008-08-28 Thread Ben Adida
Kristof Zelechovski wrote: It seems you believe in code generators. I do not share your belief. Creative Commons, YouTube, Flickr, etc... a lot of sites generate a chunk of HTML for you to paste within your site to gain a feature. This is a model that seems to work pretty well. A comment Do

Re: [whatwg] RDFa statement consistency

2008-08-28 Thread Manu Sporny
Kristof Zelechovski wrote: HTML5 is too crucial as a technology to allow arbitrary experimentation. Please refrain from making wildly opinionated and loaded comments such as this without logically backing up your argument Kristof. Many on this list and off this list would view a number of HTML5

Re: [whatwg] RDFa statement consistency (was: RDFa Basics Video (8 minutes))

2008-08-27 Thread Manu Sporny
Kristof Zelechovski wrote: We have two options for having both human-readable and machine-readable information in a document: write the structure and generate the text or write the text and recover the structure. At the very least, if you insist on having both, there must be a mechanism to