On Dec 12, 2006, at 1:38 PM, Joe Andrieu wrote:
brian suda wrote
It is possible for me to start creating a CSS style called
'vcard', but a parser would know that this is a style and not
semantics because of the lack of a profile URI. Eventually,
as microformats become more popular, the profile URI is used
to disambiguate random styles with intended semantic values.
Brian,
As I understand it profile URIs are not required.
If so, the parser cannot distinguish between wild semantic HTML and an
hCard.
Profile URIs are not required for publishers, but parsers are free to
ignore HTML without profile URIs, and I think it's reasonable to
expect them to start doing that if name conflict becomes more than a
hypothetical problem. This mirrors how natural language works.
Until there is some need for clarification, we assume everyone knows
what we mean. Then there is a need for clarification, we clarify.
No one goes around defining every word before they use it, and I
don't think we can expect publishers to behave differently with HTML
symbols. We could require profile URIs, but that won't make anyone
use them. OI think only a practical need for disambiguation will do
that.
Peace,
Scott
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