Re: [uf-discuss] re: HTML5 support

2010-07-20 Thread Stephen Paul Weber
> On Tue, 20 Jul 2010 06:05:06 +0200, Angelo Gladding >     wrote: > > > Can an enlightened soul describe in which ways microdata is actually > > superior to profiled poshformats? > > Microdata should be compared to the class attributes and the various  > patterns that microformats use, not an

Re: [uf-discuss] re: HTML5 support

2010-07-20 Thread Scott Reynen
On Jul 19, 2010, at 8:57 PM, Oli Studholme wrote: >>> Microdata doesn't go out of its way to be compatible with existing RDF >>> vocabularies >> >> Maybe not specific vocabularies (that's kind of my point), but RDF itself is >> clearly a major consideration. There's a whole section on it: >>

Re: [uf-discuss] re: HTML5 support

2010-07-20 Thread Angelo Gladding
On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 3:25 AM, Philip Jägenstedt wrote: > On Tue, 20 Jul 2010 06:05:06 +0200, Angelo Gladding > wrote: > >> Can an enlightened soul describe in which ways microdata is actually >> superior to profiled poshformats? > > Microdata should be compared to the class attributes and the

Re: [uf-discuss] re: HTML5 support

2010-07-20 Thread Ciaran McNulty
On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 1:07 PM, Philip Jägenstedt wrote: > Well, it's not in W3C's version of HTML5, they published it as a separate > spec (which is strange, IMO). Regardless of what spec it is in, it still > works just the same, so that's OK. Oh, really? Sorry, I'm out of date in that case. I

Re: [uf-discuss] re: HTML5 support

2010-07-20 Thread Philip Jägenstedt
On Tue, 20 Jul 2010 13:05:56 +0200, Ciaran McNulty wrote: On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 5:05 AM, Angelo Gladding wrote: Can an enlightened soul describe in which ways microdata is actually superior to profiled poshformats? To me it's not a question of Microdata vs POSH, it's more like Microdat

Re: [uf-discuss] re: HTML5 support

2010-07-20 Thread Ciaran McNulty
On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 5:05 AM, Angelo Gladding wrote: > Can an enlightened soul describe in which ways microdata is actually > superior to profiled poshformats? To me it's not a question of Microdata vs POSH, it's more like Microdata vs class attributes where both are methods that can be used i

Re: [uf-discuss] re: HTML5 support

2010-07-20 Thread Philip Jägenstedt
On Tue, 20 Jul 2010 06:05:06 +0200, Angelo Gladding wrote: Could it be said that microdata intends to do to Microformat syntax what HTML5 did to HTML4 syntax rules in the sense that parsing is unambiguous and easier to validate normativity? Yes, more or less. Of course vocabulary-specific r