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 post, which caused the
page to break. I am using XHTML at my site, because I want to
incorporate inline SVG, in addition to RDFa. An unfortunate consequence
of XHTML is its less than forgiving nature regarding playful pranks such
as this.
I'm assuming the WhatWG member thought the act was clever. It was,
indeed. Three people emailed me to let me know the post was breaking
while loading the page in a browser, and I made sure to note that such
breakage was courtesy of a WhatWG member, who decided that perhaps I
should just shut up, here and at my site, about the Important Work
people(?) here are doing.
Of course, the person only highlighted why it is so important that
something such as RDFa, and SVG, and MathML, get a home in HTML5. XHTML
is hard to support when you're allowing comments and external input.
Typically my filters will catch the accidental input of crappy markup,
but not the intentional. Not yet. I'm not an exerpt at markup, but I
know more than the average person. And the average person most likely
doesn't have my commitment, either.
http://annevankesteren.nl/2009/01/xml-sunday shows the commentor (who by
the way seems to be on your side in this debate) simply forgot to escape
<self-closed /> and then WordPress somehow messed up in an attempt to fix
it. I don't think anyone tries to make you "shut up".
(And if we, the evil WHATWG cabal, wanted to break your site, we would've
asked Philip` ;-))
--
Anne van Kesteren
<http://annevankesteren.nl/>
<http://www.opera.com/>
