Re: [whatwg] embedding meta data for copy/paste usages - possible use case for RDF-in-HTML?

2009-02-03 Thread Calogero Alex Baldacchino
Hallvord R M Steen ha scritto: HTML5 already contains elements that can be used to help obtain this information, such as the title, article and it's associated heading h1 to h6 and time. Obtaining author names might be a little more difficult, though perhaps hCard might help. Indeed.

Re: [whatwg] embedding meta data for copy/paste usages - possible use case for RDF-in-HTML?

2009-01-30 Thread Hallvord R M Steen
Of course, but I think your comment misses half of the proposed solution.. namely what format the UA puts the information on the clipboard in. Determining how one application passes information via the clipboard to another application seems very much out of scope of HTML. If we keep

Re: [whatwg] embedding meta data for copy/paste usages - possible use case for RDF-in-HTML?

2009-01-20 Thread Lachlan Hunt
Hallvord R M Steen wrote: 2009/1/20 Jamie Rumbelow ja...@jamierumbelow.net: I think that the already available solution to your problem are Microformats - you are essentially embedding metadata, semantically in HTML. Of course, but I think your comment misses half of the proposed solution..

[whatwg] embedding meta data for copy/paste usages - possible use case for RDF-in-HTML?

2009-01-19 Thread Hallvord R M Steen
If this was discussed already, sorry. There has been so much RDF/meta data discussion that I'm far from on top of it.. I'd like some way to add meta data to a page that could be integrated with the UA's copy/paste commands. For example, if I copy a sentence from Wikipedia and paste it in some

Re: [whatwg] embedding meta data for copy/paste usages - possible use case for RDF-in-HTML?

2009-01-19 Thread Lachlan Hunt
Hallvord R M Steen wrote: I'd like some way to add meta data to a page that could be integrated with the UA's copy/paste commands. These use cases are a good start, but the problem is that you've begun with the assumption that copy and paste would be a part of the solution. For example, if

Re: [whatwg] embedding meta data for copy/paste usages - possible use case for RDF-in-HTML?

2009-01-19 Thread Hallvord R M Steen
2009/1/20 Jamie Rumbelow ja...@jamierumbelow.net: I think that the already available solution to your problem are Microformats - you are essentially embedding metadata, semantically in HTML. Of course, but I think your comment misses half of the proposed solution.. namely what format the UA

Re: [whatwg] embedding meta data for copy/paste usages - possible use case for RDF-in-HTML?

2009-01-19 Thread Hallvord R M Steen
I'd like some way to add meta data to a page that could be integrated with the UA's copy/paste commands. These use cases are a good start, but the problem is that you've begun with the assumption that copy and paste would be a part of the solution. That's not a bug, it's a feature :) Ian