Matthias Pfefferle

2009-05-16 06:01:49

# HTML5 wird kein RDFa unterstützen

In einem kürzlich veröffentlichten Interview für das Web Standards Project (kurz WaSP) hat Ian Hickson (Editor der HTML5 Spezifikation) die Hoffnung RDFa würde auch von HTML5 unterstützt werden, endgültig zu nichte gemacht.

Auf die Frage, wie es denn mit Microformats/RDFa in HTML5 aussehe antwortet Hickson:

Microformats is natively supported in HTML5, just like it was in HTML 4, because Microformats use the built-in extension mechanisms of HTML.

We considered RDFa long and hard (in fact this is an issue that’s a hot topic right now), but at the end of the day, while some people really like it, I don’t think it strikes the right balance between power and ease of authoring. For example, it uses namespaces and prefixes, which by and large confuse authors to no end. Just recently though I proposed something of a compromise which takes some of RDFa’s better ideas and puts them into HTML 5, so hopefully that will take care of the main needs that caused people to invent RDFa. We’ll see.

Die erwähnte Alternative (die ich mir gerade zu Gemühte führe) lautet übrigens Microdata, welche RDFa so sehr ähnelt, dass man eigentlich auch gleich RDFa hätte einsetzen können… Schade!

https://notiz.blog/b/S6

#HTML #HTML5 #Microdata #Microformats #RDFa #WaSP #WHATWG #XHTML

Interview with Ian Hickson, editor of the HTML 5 specification. - The Web Standards Project

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