Am Montag, 3. Februar 2014, 10:47:09 schrieb Jarek Foksa:
What do you mean by the following sentence? Isn't better to actually use those namespaces for proper attribution and license information?
Yes, this is reasonable way to put attribution and licensing information in an XML file that is going to be interpreted by a machine, I was arguing that consistency and interoperability with HTML 5 (which uses microdata [1]) should be more important than keeping support for Semantic Web ideas that failed to get widespread adoption.
There are many complains, especially from web developers, about Inkscape generating verbose SVG files that are hard to understand and modify by humans. On the other hand there seems to be little demand for Semantic Web features.
I don't know if Inkscape has a written down product vision (gosh, how i dislike this term, but GIMP has started using it so it's probably well understood) but I was always under the impression that Inkscape wants to be a serious tool for high quality designs, be it DTP or logo design or anything like that, which eventually gets exported to some other format than SVG. Creating SVGs for inclusion into websites never occured to me to be a primary goal. More a neat side effect of seeing SVG adopted widely by HTML5. And for serious work you definitely need metadata handling, that has nothing to do with any semantic web stuff.
I might be wrong though and Inkscape could be aiming at these use cases. The website didn't tell me what it wants to be.
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