Re: [whatwg] Annotating structured data that HTML has no semantics for

2009-05-15 Thread Shelley Powers
Maciej Stachowiak wrote: On May 14, 2009, at 1:30 PM, Shelley Powers wrote: So, if I'm pushing for RDFa, it's not because I want to win. It's because I have things I want to do now, and I would like to make sure have a reasonable chance of working a couple of years in the future. And yeah

Re: [whatwg] Link rot is not dangerous

2009-05-15 Thread Shelley Powers
Dan Brickley wrote: On 15/5/09 18:20, Manu Sporny wrote: Kristof Zelechovski wrote: Therefore, link rot is a bigger problem for CURIE prefixes than for links. There have been a number of people now that have gone to great lengths to outline how awful link rot is for CURIEs and the semantic

Re: [whatwg] Link rot is not dangerous

2009-05-15 Thread Shelley Powers
Kristof Zelechovski wrote: Classes in com.sun.* are reserved for Java implementation details and should not be used by the general public. CURIE URL are intended for general use. So, I can say Well, it is not the same, because it is not. Cheers, Chris But we're not dealing with Java

Re: [whatwg] Link rot is not dangerous

2009-05-15 Thread Shelley Powers
Philip Taylor wrote: On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 6:25 PM, Shelley Powers shell...@burningbird.net wrote: The most important point to take from all of this, though, is that link rot within the RDF world is an extremely rare and unlikely occurrence. That seems to be untrue in practice - see

Re: [whatwg] Annotating structured data that HTML has no semantics for

2009-05-14 Thread Shelley Powers
James Graham wrote: jgra...@opera.com wrote: Quoting Philip Taylor excors+wha...@gmail.com: On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 11:32 AM, Ian Hickson i...@hixie.ch wrote: One of the more elaborate use cases I collected from the e-mails sent in over the past few months was the following: USE CASE:

Re: [whatwg] Annotating structured data that HTML has no semantics for

2009-05-14 Thread Shelley Powers
Dan Brickley wrote: On 14/5/09 14:18, Shelley Powers wrote: James Graham wrote: jgra...@opera.com wrote: Quoting Philip Taylor excors+wha...@gmail.com: On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 11:32 AM, Ian Hickson i...@hixie.ch wrote: One of the more elaborate use cases I collected from the e-mails sent

Re: [whatwg] Annotating structured data that HTML has no semantics for

2009-05-14 Thread Shelley Powers
Maciej Stachowiak wrote: On May 14, 2009, at 5:18 AM, Shelley Powers wrote: So much concern about generating RDF, makes one wonder why we didn't just implement RDFa... If it's possible to produce RDF triples from microdata, and if RDF triples of interest can be expressed with microdata

Re: [whatwg] Annotating structured data that HTML has no semantics for

2009-05-14 Thread Shelley Powers
Maciej Stachowiak wrote: On May 14, 2009, at 1:04 PM, Shelley Powers wrote: Maciej Stachowiak wrote: On May 14, 2009, at 5:18 AM, Shelley Powers wrote: So much concern about generating RDF, makes one wonder why we didn't just implement RDFa... If it's possible to produce RDF triples

Re: [whatwg] Annotating structured data that HTML has no semantics for

2009-05-12 Thread Shelley Powers
Philip Taylor wrote: On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 11:55 AM, Eduard Pascual herenva...@gmail.com wrote: [...] (at least for now: many RDFa-aware agents vs. zero HTML5's microdata -aware agents) HTML5 microdata parsers seem pretty trivial to write -

Re: [whatwg] Annotating structured data that HTML has no semantics for

2009-05-12 Thread Shelley Powers
Ian Hickson wrote: On Tue, 12 May 2009, Peter Mika wrote: Just a quick comment on: it uses prefixes, which most authors simply do not understand, and which many implementors end up getting wrong (e.g. SearchMonkey hard-coded certain prefixes in its first implementation, Google's

Re: [whatwg] Annotating structured data that HTML has no semantics for

2009-05-12 Thread Shelley Powers
Sam Ruby wrote: On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 4:34 PM, Shelley Powers shell...@burningbird.net wrote: I would say if your fellow Google developers could understand how this all works, there is hope for others. if http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-rdf-in-xhtml-tf/2009May/0064.html

[whatwg] Custom microdata handling added to HTML5 spec

2009-05-10 Thread Shelley Powers
Since a new section detailing HTML5's handling of custom microdata has been added to the HTML5 spec (tracked here http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=3073to=3074 and displayed here http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/Overview.html#microdata and announced

[whatwg] Continuing

2009-05-10 Thread Shelley Powers
Sorry for the double emails today. I will continue with revisiting the use cases for the microdata section. One additional component I'll add to the use cases is applying my interpretation of how RDFa might handle the use case, as compared to how it could be handled with Ian's new HTML5

[whatwg] microdata use cases and Getting data out of poorly written Web pages

2009-05-08 Thread Shelley Powers
It's difficult to tell where one should comment on the so-called microdata use cases. I'm forced to send to multiple mailing lists. Ian, I would like to see the original request that went into this particular use case. In particular, I'd like to know who originated it, so that we can ensure

Re: [whatwg] microdata use cases and Getting data out of poorly written Web pages

2009-05-08 Thread Shelley Powers
Ian Hickson wrote: On Fri, 8 May 2009, Shelley Powers wrote: It's difficult to tell where one should comment on the so-called microdata use cases. I'm forced to send to multiple mailing lists. Please don't cross-post to the WHATWG list and other lists -- you may pick either one, I

[whatwg] notes on current HTML5 draft

2009-05-02 Thread Shelley Powers
Per Ian Hickson's request, first of my notes on the current HTML 5 draft Section 1.6.3, where you compare HTML5 with XHTML2 and XForms, you write However, XHTML2 and XForms lack features to express the semantics of many of the non-document types of content often seen on the Web. For instance,

[whatwg] Section 3 semantics and structure

2009-05-02 Thread Shelley Powers
More general comments on the HTML5 draft: In section three, you mix structure and semantics, but the two are not necessarily compatible. For instance, we see an introduction to the Document, and then immediately proceed into a description of Documents in the DOM. Frankly, I don't see how a

[whatwg] example of serialization problems

2009-05-02 Thread Shelley Powers
Review of HTML5 document: Here's a good example of a potential point of confusion for readers of the spec when it comes to serialization: In section 4.5.8 you introduce the ul element, and then demonstrate it with a several child li elements, each of which is shown with an HTML

Re: [whatwg] RDFa is to structured data, like canvas is to bitmap and SVG is to vector

2009-01-20 Thread Shelley Powers
Dan Brickley wrote: On 18/1/09 20:07, Henri Sivonen wrote: On Jan 18, 2009, at 20:48, Dan Brickley wrote: On 18/1/09 19:34, Henri Sivonen wrote: On Jan 18, 2009, at 01:32, Shelley Powers wrote: Are you then saying that this will be a showstopper, and there will never be either a workaround

Re: [whatwg] RDFa is to structured data, like canvas is to bitmap and SVG is to vector

2009-01-20 Thread Shelley Powers
Eduard Pascual wrote: On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 3:56 PM, Anne van Kesteren ann...@opera.com wrote: On Sun, 18 Jan 2009 16:22:40 +0100, Shelley Powers shell...@burningbird.net wrote: My apologies for not responding sooner to this thread. You see, one of the WhatWG working group members

Re: [whatwg] RDFa is to structured data, like canvas is to bitmap and SVG is to vector

2009-01-20 Thread Shelley Powers
Ian Hickson wrote: On Sun, 18 Jan 2009, Shelley Powers wrote: The more use cases there are, the better informed the results will be. The point isn't to provide use cases. The point is to highlight a serious problem with this working group--there is a mindset of what the future

Re: [whatwg] RDFa is to structured data, like canvas is to bitmap and SVG is to vector

2009-01-18 Thread Shelley Powers
Ian Hickson wrote: On Sat, 17 Jan 2009, Sam Ruby wrote: But back to expectations. I've seen references elsewhere to Ian being booked through the end of this quarter. I may have misheard, but in any case, my point is the same: if this is awaiting something from Ian, it will be prioritized

Re: [whatwg] RDFa is to structured data, like canvas is to bitmap and SVG is to vector

2009-01-18 Thread Shelley Powers
Anne van Kesteren wrote: On Sun, 18 Jan 2009 16:22:40 +0100, Shelley Powers shell...@burningbird.net wrote: My apologies for not responding sooner to this thread. You see, one of the WhatWG working group members thought it would be fun to add a comment to my Stop Justifying RDF and RDFa web

[whatwg] RDFa is to structured data, like canvas is to bitmap and SVG is to vector

2009-01-17 Thread Shelley Powers
The debate about RDFa highlights a disconnect in the decision making related to HTML5. The purpose behind RDFa is to provide a way to embed complex information into a web document, in such a way that a machine can extract this information and combine it with other data extracted from other

Re: [whatwg] RDFa is to structured data, like canvas is to bitmap and SVG is to vector

2009-01-17 Thread Shelley Powers
Dan Brickley wrote: On 17/1/09 19:27, Sam Ruby wrote: On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 11:55 AM, Shelley Powers shell...@burningbird.net wrote: The debate about RDFa highlights a disconnect in the decision making related to HTML5. Perhaps. Or perhaps not. I am far from an apologist for Hixie

Re: [whatwg] RDFa is to structured data, like canvas is to bitmap and SVG is to vector

2009-01-17 Thread Shelley Powers
Sam Ruby wrote: On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 1:33 PM, Dan Brickley dan...@danbri.org wrote: On 17/1/09 19:27, Sam Ruby wrote: On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 11:55 AM, Shelley Powers shell...@burningbird.net wrote: The debate about RDFa highlights a disconnect in the decision making

Re: [whatwg] RDFa is to structured data, like canvas is to bitmap and SVG is to vector

2009-01-17 Thread Shelley Powers
Ian Hickson wrote: On Sat, 17 Jan 2009, Sam Ruby wrote: Shelley Powers wrote: So, why accept that we have to use MathML in order to solve the problems of formatting mathematical formula? Why not start from scratch, and devise a new approach? Ian explored (and answered

Re: [whatwg] RDFa is to structured data, like canvas is to bitmap and SVG is to vector

2009-01-17 Thread Shelley Powers
Henri Sivonen wrote: On Jan 17, 2009, at 20:33, Dan Brickley wrote: Good question. I for one expect RDFa to be accessible to Javascript. http://code.google.com/p/rdfquery/wiki/Introduction - http://rdfquery.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/demos/markup/markup.html is a nice example of code that

Re: [whatwg] RDFa is to structured data, like canvas is to bitmap and SVG is to vector

2009-01-17 Thread Shelley Powers
Henri Sivonen wrote: On Jan 17, 2009, at 21:38, Shelley Powers wrote: I'm not doubting the effort that went into getting MathML and SVG accepted. I've followed the effort associated with SVG since the beginning. I'm not sure if the same procedure was also applied to the canvas object

Re: [whatwg] RDFa is to structured data, like canvas is to bitmap and SVG is to vector

2009-01-17 Thread Shelley Powers
Sam Ruby wrote: On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 2:38 PM, Shelley Powers shell...@burningbird.net wrote: I propose that RDFa is the best solution to the use case Martin supplied, and we've shown how it is not a disruptive solution to HTML5. Others may differ, but my read is that the case

Re: [whatwg] RDFa is to structured data, like canvas is to bitmap and SVG is to vector

2009-01-17 Thread Shelley Powers
The assumption is incorrect. Please compare http://hsivonen.iki.fi/test/moz/xmlns-dom.html and http://hsivonen.iki.fi/test/moz/xmlns-dom.xhtml Same bytes, different media type. I put together a very crude demonstration of JavaScript access of a specific RDFa attribute, about. It's