Anne van Kesteren wrote:
On Sun, 18 Jan 2009 17:15:34 +0100, Shelley Powers
<[email protected]> wrote:
And regardless of the fact that I jumped to conclusions about WhatWG
membership, I do not believe I was inaccurate with the earlier part
of this email. Sam started a new thread in the discussion about the
issues of namespace and how, perhaps we could find a way to work the
issues through with RDFa. My god, I use RDFa in my pages, and they
load fine with any browser, including IE. I have to believe its
incorporation into HTML5 is not the daunting effort that others make
it seem to be.'
You ask us to take you seriously and consider your feedback, it would
be nice if you took what e.g. Henri wrote seriously as well.
Integrating a new feature in HTML is not a simple task, even if the
new feature loads and renders fine in Internet Explorer.
Take you guys seriously...OK, yeah.
I don't doubt that the work will be challenging, or problematical. I'm
not denying Henri's claim. And I didn't claim to be the one who would
necessarily come up with the solutions, either, but that I would help in
those instances that I could.
What I did express in the later emails, is what others have expressed
who have asked about RDFa in HTML5: are we wasting our time even trying?
That it seems like a decision has already been made, and we're spinning
our wheels even attempting to find solutions. There's a difference
between not being willing to negotiate, compromise, work the problem,
and just spitting into the wind for no good.
However, the debate ended as soon as Ian re-asserted his authority.
Ian just gave an indication of when he's going to work on this again.
That doesn't mean that research into e.g. DOM consistency can't happen
meanwhile. It also doesn't mean that debate needs to stop.
No, Ian's listing of tasks pretty much precluded any input into the
decision making process other than his own. I never see "we" when Ian
writes, I only see "I".
Regardless, perhaps Dan or Ben have better arguments than I do to input
into the debate. I'm not helping.
Shelley
