Is there a reason they chose not to use rdf/microformats?
Because RDF sucks? And microformats only help in some cases
This is their proprietary FBML markup, I believe
It looks a lot like JSON to me. What are you looking at?
Because RDF sucks? And microformats only help in some cases
This is their proprietary FBML markup, I believe
It looks a lot like JSON to me. What are you looking at?
If a suitable standard exists, you would think they'd take advantage of it (increased adoption), no? I also don't like the idea of duplicating efforts, but apparently I have missed some technical limitation.
[Edit] I think I just found the part of the answer: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1283507.
Are you referring to the "RDF sucks" bit? Yes, I think it is a widely held view, which often people are too scared to express.
Here's a decent reference: http://norman.walsh.name/2004/07/30/rdfxml
(Norm Walsh is the chair of the XML Processing Model Working Group and co-chair of the XML Core Working Group, so he does have some kind of grasp of how XML is supposed to work)
N3 is much more widely liked - http://www.w3.org/2000/10/swap/Primer - as is RDFa - http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml-rdfa-primer/