Re: RDF being phased out?

mixit wrote:
> I'm really disturbed to hear that Mozilla is considering pulling RDF :
> (
> 
> I understand that there may well be cruft problems associated with
> legacy code but
> RDF represents an incredibly useful tool, especially when combined
> with the template builder.
> 
> I'm lead developer on a 4 year project that has been using XUL for an
> in-house application
> and we rely utterly on RDF and the template builder to manage our huge
> data structures.
> 
> Is there any possibility of finding the resources for  keeping RDF
> going or updating the legacy code
> to solve the long-running issues? (Perhaps in the form of support from
> my customer?)
> si

The template builder isn't going away.

What Mozilla 2 at large will mean for your application is going to be an 
interesting question. JS code should hopefully port easily, but that may 
well depend on what you're doing.

As I've mentioned before, there isn't a clear definition of RDF, I 
suspect that different folks want different things. Like, to me, RDF is 
a dynamically typed aggregated directed labeled graph, and RDF/XML is a 
bug. I've seen other opinions, too.

That makes "keep my stuff working" an underdefined request, sadly. And, 
honestly, Mozilla 2 is really just about "no, not that, sorry". We're 
not doing that with evil intentions, but in the interest of the 
platform, and there is plenty of heads-up notice now for you guys to 
figure out what of RDF you really used and if it was really more than 
just the stuff that was available back then.

Axel