From now on I am framing all web standards-type discussions with the question “what is it reasonable to demand that authors do”

For example, it’s not reasonable to demand authors publish content in more than one format. It’s not reasonable to demand that authors learn how RDF works. It is reasonable to require authors to publish HTML. It is reasonable to require authors to add some simple microformats like rel-author, h-entry or h-card.

I’m having trouble figuring out whether my complete inability to understand why RDF is useful is caused by my own stupidity, or if my brain has a built-in nonsenseguard which blocks out unproductive, overcomplicated technology

#TIL the id attribute isn’t good enough for RDFa ‘lite’, apparently it needs the new resource attribute.

That's just the web, right? I mean, we've had the a href tag since literally the beginning of HTML / The Web. It's for linking documents. Documents are a representation of data.

Ha, so true — @veganstraightedge on #rdf #html (source)