Re: [whatwg] Was is considered to use JSON-LD instead of creating application/microdata+json?

2012-08-14 Thread Henri Sivonen
On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 1:39 PM, Markus Lanthaler markus.lantha...@gmx.net wrote: Well, I would say there are several advantages. First of all, JSON-LD is more flexible and expressive. More flexible and expressive than what? Than application/microdata+json. That's a problem right there.

Re: [whatwg] Was is considered to use JSON-LD instead of creating application/microdata+json?

2012-08-10 Thread Markus Lanthaler
On Thursday, August 09, 2012 4:53 PM, Ian Hickson wrote: The only reason there's a MIME type at all (rather than just using JSON's directly) was to enable filtering of copy-and-paste and drag-and-drop payloads; would JSON-LD enable that also? Sure, I see no reason why not. Could

Re: [whatwg] Was is considered to use JSON-LD instead of creating application/microdata+json?

2012-08-10 Thread Ian Hickson
On Fri, 10 Aug 2012, Markus Lanthaler wrote: On Thursday, August 09, 2012 4:53 PM, Ian Hickson wrote: The only reason there's a MIME type at all (rather than just using JSON's directly) was to enable filtering of copy-and-paste and drag-and-drop payloads; would JSON-LD enable

Re: [whatwg] Was is considered to use JSON-LD instead of creating application/microdata+json?

2012-08-09 Thread Markus Lanthaler
On Thursday, August 09, 2012 1:18 AM, Ian Hickson wrote. On Wed, 8 Aug 2012, Markus Lanthaler wrote: I was wondering whether it was considered to use JSON-LD [2] instead of creating application/microdata+json. The resulting output would be more or less the same. It wasn't. What

Re: [whatwg] Was is considered to use JSON-LD instead of creating application/microdata+json?

2012-08-09 Thread Ian Hickson
On Thu, 9 Aug 2012, Markus Lanthaler wrote: The only reason there's a MIME type at all (rather than just using JSON's directly) was to enable filtering of copy-and-paste and drag-and-drop payloads; would JSON-LD enable that also? Sure, I see no reason why not. Could you give an

[whatwg] Was is considered to use JSON-LD instead of creating application/microdata+json?

2012-08-08 Thread Markus Lanthaler
Hi all, I just sent this e-mail in response to Michael[tm] Smith's request [1] to register application/microdata+json to ietf-types but I think this is a better place to discuss this... so sorry for the cross-post. I was wondering whether it was considered to use JSON-LD [2] instead of creating

Re: [whatwg] Was is considered to use JSON-LD instead of creating application/microdata+json?

2012-08-08 Thread Ian Hickson
On Wed, 8 Aug 2012, Markus Lanthaler wrote: I was wondering whether it was considered to use JSON-LD [2] instead of creating application/microdata+json. The resulting output would be more or less the same. It wasn't. What would be the purpose of doing so? The only reason there's a MIME