On Nov 30, 2005, at 11:14 PM, Tantek Çelik wrote:
On 11/30/05 4:55 PM, "Ryan King" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Never underestimate the usefulness of human-readable data.
Ryan, this is an excellent point, and I feel like something that needs
to be
added to that other blog-post-in-progress based on the last discussion
of
"The tools will save us" (NOT!) that we had on the list.
There is SO MUCH evidence (like the examples you just gave) for the
usefulness of making data formats be human-readable that it really
makes you
wonder why so many otherwise intelligent people keep wanting to do
otherwise.
Well, there is a second distinction here. XML folks would argue that
their data is human readable too, and describing the Box Model Hack as
human-readable only works for a sufficiently narrow definition of
human.
However the key point with using HTML for the microformats, is that
everyone has a viewer for the data, so they don't need to parse it by
eye, as it were.
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