The Web Platform WG has issued a call for consensus to publish a FPWD of HTML Microdata as a spec:
https://github.com/w3c/microdata/issues/7 If we don't think this should eventually become a W3C Recommendation, it's helpful to explicitly object sooner rather than later. Previously we (Mozilla) formally objected to the broad inclusion of Microdata in the Web Platform WG charter, and the W3C narrowed it to include just the markup bits (and drop the DOM API which we specifically unimplemented in Gecko). Summary: Positive: * There are legacy microdata markup publishers and consumers on the live web (enough to consider it "incubated"). ** Caveat: this is a trailing indicator at this point. Negatives: * The original proposers of Microdata (Google) have switched to recommending JSON-LD data islands instead. * There is no "microdata community" ** Even the SEO "community" has largely abandoned it since it's no longer Google's "recommended" approach. * Better alternatives exist with strong and growing communities (RDFa for SemWeb folks, and the much simpler microformats2 in the growing IndieWeb community and movement) For these reasons I'm going to restate an objection: Microdata markup is at this point legacy and no longer an industry nor community recommended part of the web platform, thus W3C should not be developing it towards a REC. It is also thus not worth W3Cs resources to spend any WG time on Microdata, except perhaps to update the existing Microdata Note to drop the unimplemented DOM API due to the negative implementation experience thereof. I'm posting this here in case anyone has any new information, supporting or otherwise. Thanks, Tantek _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
