Mozilla 2.0
An update on plans for Mozilla 2.0, including this:
For instance, we can get rid of RDF, which seems to be the main source of “Mozilla ugliness”
I agree with the point that it ought to be possible to do without using RDF (or XML) for configuration files. OTOH, I can’t help but think there’s an opportunity to improve the RDF support in Mozilla on top of the new unified storage system built on top of SQLite. Indeed, others have pointed this out. Mozilla’s RDF support is ugly, then, not per se that RDF can’t be done much cleaner, with real benefits to users and developers of more data oriented extensions.
For example, I’m not really sure there’s any reason that Zotero must have been built on the raw SQLite, and couldn’t have instead benefited from an RDF abstraction on top.
