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List:       mozilla-rdf
Subject:    Re: rdf collections and xul template
From:       elixon <new.mozilla.org () webdevelopers ! cz>
Date:       2004-12-04 9:57:06
Message-ID: cos1lt$5ri1 () ripley ! netscape ! com
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:-( It looks like Mozilla involves more of the marketing than I expected:

=== http://www.mozilla.org/why/framework-details.html ===
Standards Support: Gecko is the first browser technology to fully 
implement the latest W3C standards and enables developers to build rich, 
dynamic web pages and web-based applications that look and run as 
intended across a variety of platforms and devices. This saves 
developers time and money while allowing them to deliver 
state-of-the-art content and web applications. Gecko features full 
support for open Internet standards such as CSS1, HTML 4.0, DOM1, RDF, 
XML and JavaScript.
===

I'm afraid of experiencing more "full standards support" from Mozilla. 
I'm OK if they say - RDF (w3c draft from 1998) but when I chosen for my 
project to use Mozilla's RDF support based on their "information" about 
"full standards support" I don't like to be surprised... :-(

On the other hand after I chosen the Mozilla's RDF as the underlying 
technology there are resources about any problems I can experience - 
which is very good and the Mozilla community is very helpful too:

=== http://xulplanet.com/tutorials/mozsdk/rdfsyntax.php ===
Mozilla RDF Notes

Mozilla's RDF parser was written before the RDF specification was 
finalized. Thus, there are two differences. The first is that the parser 
is slightly more lax than it might be, so the resource and about 
attributes don't need to be in the RDF namespace to work. The second is 
that for Seq, Bag and Alt types, the predicate 'rdf:instanceOf' from an 
earlier draft of RDF is used instead of 'rdf:type'. This only applies to 
the list types, not to other types.

Neither of these issues should cause you any problems, however, you 
might want to be aware of them.
=== end ===

Regrettably I'm not able to contribute any fix to this matter because 
fixing the Mozilla's RDF parser is going behind my current skills. :-(

So I hope somebody will fix it soon because I strongly believe in W3C 
Semantic Web as the future widely involving RDF and for sure Web needs 
browsers like Mozilla!

Keep doing good job, Mozilla (and less of the marketing, please)!


Daniel 'elixon' Sevcik
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