Re: Minutes for July 30th, 2009 RDFa Telecon

[Julian Reschke]

Martin McEvoy wrote:
Hello  again Julian,
Julian Reschke wrote:
I thought the purpose was to expose additional data to clients, 
independent of the page?

No the purpose is to convey the unique semantics/meaning/characteristics 
of the page, the fact that it can be read by something other than a web 
browser is secondary I think, and also a bonus, If the data is there why 
cant it be used by say a search engine a parser that converts the 
information to RDF?
...

The purpose is to convey the semantics to *other* parties, which is 
exactly the use case HTML5 forbids data-* to use for.

BR, Julian