On Mon, 11 May 2009, Ben Adida wrote: > > It's actually quite bad, since it uses some RDFa attributes with > different interpretation. In other words, it's incompatible on purpose.
As discussed in the e-mail Elias mentioned: > > On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 9:32 AM, Elias Torres <el...@torrez.us> wrote: > > > http://lists.whatwg.org/pipermail/whatwg-whatwg.org/2009-May/019681.html ...it's actually intentionally keeping out of the way of RDFa. That is, a page with microdata won't cause RDFa implementations to generate triples. (This is done by relying on the CURIE no-prefix form and by using undeclared prefixes, so no valid CURIEs are ever found.) To some extent though, HTML4 itself is incompatible with RDFa, as I mentioned in an ongoing thread with Manu recently: http://lists.whatwg.org/htdig.cgi/whatwg-whatwg.org/2009-May/thread.html#19602 There's not much HTML5 can do about that. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
