Re: [whatwg] on bibtex-in-html5

2009-05-21 Thread Henri Sivonen
On May 20, 2009, at 19:24, Bruce D'Arcus wrote: Re: the recent microdata work and the subsequent effort to include BibTeX in the spec, I summarized my argument against this on my blog: http://community.muohio.edu/blogs/darcusb/archives/2009/05/20/on-the-inclusion-of-bibtex-in-html5 Quoting

Re: [whatwg] Exposing known data types in a reusable way

2009-05-21 Thread Eduard Pascual
Interesting. Despite my PoV against the microdata proposal, I've taken a look at it and find a minor typo: Within 5.4.1 vCard, by the end of the n property description, the spec reads: The value of the fn property a name in one of the following forms: shouldn't it read: The value of the fn

Re: [whatwg] on bibtex-in-html5

2009-05-21 Thread Bruce D'Arcus
Hi Henri, On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 4:00 AM, Henri Sivonen hsivo...@iki.fi wrote: On May 20, 2009, at 19:24, Bruce D'Arcus wrote: Re: the recent microdata work and the subsequent effort to include BibTeX in the spec, I summarized my argument against this on my blog:

Re: [whatwg] on bibtex-in-html5

2009-05-21 Thread Bruce D'Arcus
Oops; two quick things ... On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 8:02 AM, Bruce D'Arcus bdar...@gmail.com wrote: Citation and bibliographic formatting conventions do include information that suggests type; it's not that it requires a human reader to decipher. I meant it's JUST that ... Here's the

Re: [whatwg] on bibtex-in-html5

2009-05-21 Thread Henri Sivonen
On May 21, 2009, at 15:02, Bruce D'Arcus wrote: Except the assumption that BIbTeX is widely used is overdrawn once you get out of the technology and sciences sectors. OK. This doesn't mean that BibTeX is a bad basis. The set of types and fields is limited, though. It's limited, and it's

Re: [whatwg] A Selector-based metadata proposal (was: Annotating structured data that HTML has no semantics for)

2009-05-21 Thread Toby Inkster
On Thu, 2009-05-21 at 13:26 +0200, Eduard Pascual wrote: [... lots ...] Eduard, thanks for your long and informative reply. I won't go into every point mentioned in detail, but in summary I'd like to say that your message reassured me on a few points and perhaps CRDF is not as bad as I

Re: [whatwg] on bibtex-in-html5

2009-05-21 Thread Bruce D'Arcus
On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 9:51 AM, Henri Sivonen hsivo...@iki.fi wrote: On May 21, 2009, at 15:02, Bruce D'Arcus wrote: Except the assumption that BIbTeX is widely used is overdrawn once you get out of the technology and sciences sectors. OK. This doesn't mean that BibTeX is a bad basis. The

[whatwg] Naming of Self-closing start tag state

2009-05-21 Thread Geoffrey Sneddon
I think this is a bit of a misnomer, as the current token can be an end tag token (although it will throw a parse error whatever happens once it reaches this state). I suggest renaming it to self-closing tag state. -- Geoffrey Sneddon http://gsnedders.com/

Re: [whatwg] on bibtex-in-html5

2009-05-21 Thread Edward O'Connor
Both FOAF and vCard have unstructured personal name properties (foaf:name and v:fn) that address this. But vCard required both N and FN, so if you only have FN, you can't get an N without a lot of dictionary-based domain knowledge and special rules. (Or you can make a GIGO N...) Hmm ...

Re: [whatwg] DOMParser / XMLSerializer

2009-05-21 Thread Boris Zbarsky
Anne van Kesteren wrote: 2) DOMParser can parse from a byte array instead of a string; this makes it a little easier to work with XML in encodings other than UTF-8 or UTF-16. ECMASCript doesn't have byte arrays though. (Though it would be nice if it did.) Sure, but it has arrays