[uf-discuss] re: HTML5 support

[Martin McEvoy]

  Hello Oli ...

On 13/07/2010 17:59, Oli Studholme wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 5:13 AM, Martin McEvoy<martin at weborganics.co.uk>  wrote
>> I wouldnt really be surprised to see microdata disappear all together(but
>> that's just my thought)
> But how could microdata possibly disappear now that Google supports it? ;)

Because Microdata is far to obtrusive to be practical in the "real 
world" for example....

Microdata vcard example from 
http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/links.html#vcard

<span itemscope itemtype="http://microformats.org/profile/hcard">
	<span itemprop=fn>
		<span itemprop="n">
			<span itemprop="given-name">George</span>
			<span itemprop="family-name">Washington</span>
		</span>
	</span>
</span>

8 lines of code which would parse as:

BEGIN:VCARD
PROFILE:VCARD
VERSION:3.0
SOURCE:document's address
FN:George Washington
N:Washington;George;;;
END:VCARD

great you would think, now try that using microformats, example from 
http://yiid.cc/3GI2

<span class="vcard">
<span class="fn">George Washington</span>
</span>

3 lines of code which parses as:

BEGIN:VCARD
SOURCE:document's address
NAME:document's title
VERSION:3.0
N;CHARSET=UTF-8:Washington;George;;;
FN;CHARSET=UTF-8:George Washington
END:VCARD

from a commercial and practical point of view, microdata is definitely 
not intended to be for "humans first" .

Anyway believe what you like, microdata needs a *lot* of work before it 
can ever be considered as  "micro" as far as I can see, at the moment It 
just confuses people into using an unnecessary semantic.

Best wishes

-- 
Martin McEvoy