On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 8:53 AM, Raimond Spekking
<raimond.spekking(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Just a note for all who works on HTML and microdata:
W3C released a new
working draft:
http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/WD-microdata-20100304/
Do note that per W3C procedure, Working Drafts are largely
meaningless. They tend to be regular snapshots of Editor's Drafts,
and the procedure for getting to Working Draft doesn't require that
they be complete or stable, or that they have no known major problems,
or that everyone necessarily supported their publication. The
procedure is usually to publish a snapshot of the Editor's Draft every
once in a while as a Working Draft. Only Last Call and higher levels
(Candidate Recommendation, Proposed Recommendation, Recommendation)
have meaningful publication requirements.
As a result, referring to Working Drafts is usually a waste of time,
since they're just outdated snapshots of Editor's Drafts. The W3C
Editor's Draft for Microdata is here:
http://dev.w3.org/html5/md/
(it's currently the same as the Working Draft, I think, but this will
change as it's updated). The WHATWG version of microdata, which has
identical contents to the W3C version (they're generated by the same
person from the same source document) but is organized differently and
has some extra features like status tags and a comment box, is here:
http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/microdata.html#…