On 17 Jun 2011, at 21:13, Lin Clark wrote: > >That's interesting. Was there anybody who pointed this out at the time? > > Yes. Most notably, Ian Hickson pointed it out in direct relation to RDFa and > Microdata > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg11067.html > http://wiki.whatwg.org/wiki/Change_Proposal_for_ISSUE-120 And others (including me ;-) have pointed out the need for the SW to rethink its current approach (in 2008/9):
http://renato.iannella.it/blog/files/sw-harmful.html http://renato.iannella.it/blog/files/swml.html And a call for a simpler RDF (by Sandro Hawke): http://decentralyze.com/2010/11/10/simplified-rdf/ And comments from JeniT about being "too insular and may be deaf to wider developer concerns": http://www.w3.org/2010/11/TPAC/RDF-SW-velocity.pdf Please note, I fully support the SW, and want to see it succeed beyond all our expectations. I am hoping that schema.org.gate will drive a new change... Cheers... Renato Iannella Semantic Identity http://semanticidentity.com Mobile: +61 4 1313 2206
