Re: [whatwg] RDFa Problem Statement (was: Creative Commons Rights Expression Language)

2008-08-26 Thread Ian Hickson
On Mon, 25 Aug 2008, Manu Sporny wrote: > > Web browsers currently do not understand the meaning behind human > statements or concepts on a web page. While this may seem academic, it > has direct implications on website usability. If web browsers could > understand that a particular page was de

Re: [whatwg] RDFa Problem Statement (was: Creative Commons Rights Expression Language)

2008-08-26 Thread Karl Dubost
Le 26 août 2008 à 16:04, Kristof Zelechovski a écrit : Web browsers are (hopefully) designed so that they run in every culture. If you define a custom vocabulary without considering its ability to describe phenomena of other cultures and try to impose it worldwide, you do more harm than g

Re: [whatwg] RDFa Problem Statement (was: Creative Commons Rights Expression Language)

2008-08-26 Thread Kristof Zelechovski
ubject: Re: [whatwg] RDFa Problem Statement (was: Creative Commons Rights Expression Language) The Microformats community, and all communities like it, require a group of people to come together, collaborate and create a standard vocabulary to express ALL semantics. A somewhat strained analogy would b

Re: [whatwg] RDFa Problem Statement (was: Creative Commons Rights Expression Language)

2008-08-25 Thread Manu Sporny
Ian Hickson wrote: > I have no idea what problem RDFa is trying to solve. I have no idea what > the requirements are. Ian, this is not an official response from the RDF in XHTML Task Force or the Semantic Web Deployment Workgroup. It is a personal attempt to outline some of the problems that RDFa