Microdata, Microformats, and RDF — Edward O’Connor

September 3 2010, 1:27pm

Since it wasn’t designed with the HTML Design Principles in mind, it should come as no surprise that RDFa violates several of them, and so isn’t suitable for inclusion in the Web platform. As Ian put it in his WaSP interview:

We considered RDFa long and hard[…], 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.
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