Comments on: HTML5 Microdata Fantasy

By: none

none — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 17:33:11 +0000

“There are lots of wholes in this sketch which is why it’s a fantasy.”
I first read that as “There are lots of whores in this sketch which is why it’s a fantasy.”

Which didn’t make sense in the context (but makes sense otherwise). I then realised you meant “There are lots of holes in this sketch which is why it’s a fantasy.”

Curse that double-you!

By: lun0

lun0 — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 23:12:13 +0000

hehehe awesome stuff

By: Simon Gibbs

Simon Gibbs — Thu, 14 May 2009 19:25:31 +0000

If you were to put city state, zip and street elements in a namespace and use CSS3 selectors then you wouldn’t need any syntax transformation in the page, or anywhere else.

Once the elements are in a namespace and the markup is valid XML getting to RDF (via GRDLL) or unmarshalling objects (XPath, JAX-B) is easy – everyone is happy. Most intelligent people are able to grok XML namespaces given a few days of exposure to them.

Given CSS3 rather than a def element there is very little missing from standards and tools, so this is not especially fantastic.

By: donpark

donpark — Wed, 13 May 2009 16:55:36 +0000

If it’s done on client-side, only that I think this is easier to learn than XSLT. If XSLT transform is server-side, this is easier to use as well. I find XSLT learning curve rather steep for average HTML jockey.

By: Philip Taylor

Philip Taylor — Wed, 13 May 2009 08:52:46 +0000

How would your idea differ from simply defining all the data in a separate machine-readable XML file and then using XSLT (or some other templating language) to construct the HTML from it?

By: donpark

donpark — Wed, 13 May 2009 07:25:26 +0000

Yeah, I know. I was there when IE core guys explained how the IE worked during a W3C DOM WG meeting. If I could, I would bury W3C in the sand then build an out house over it.

By: Douglas Hineline

Douglas Hineline — Wed, 13 May 2009 06:31:31 +0000

You can’t stop a stampede my man. The general html semantics has too much momentum to change direction too much, besides we’re just now starting to get browsers that act somewhat similar. In the end it is all just XML nodes, but try telling that to IE.