Benjamin West wrote: > That's the first I've heard of this usage. I think what I'm > hearing (and agree with) is a need for a term that describes > the product of semantic markup techniques in a general way.
It's my usage. It seemed natural as I've heard the term uppercase/lowercase used to distinguish between official and unofficial in other areas in the past. > Lots of people are already doing this, and don't need any > official body to bless them. Agreed. I just see the need to give those people a way to disambiguate between themselves and Microformats. I've said the same here as well as on WHATWG. But I'm not gaining any success to date. People are saying it is a hypothetical problem while ignoring that I am saying it is an actual problem in my usage. > Microformats (any casing) would be a subset of these products > that are blessed by pervasive use across the web. I'm > hesitant to pick out such a name, lest I choose badly (eg > AJAX). I'm happy to let the market pick that name (eg I > don't think anyone should deliberately pick it out.), but at > the same time, I'm hesitant to let the term microformats be > applied to general applications of general techniques. > > Does that reverberate at all with you, Mike, or anyone else? That's exactly what I see going on here and discuss on WHATWG, so yes. Ian Hickson called it "Keywords in the HTML extension mechanism" and I reverted to calling it "semantic markup embedded in HTML." Maybe we could call it SemMarE? (yeah, I suck a making up names too. ;-) -- -Mike Schinkel http://www.mikeschinkel.com/blogs/ http://www.welldesignedurls.org/ _______________________________________________ microformats-discuss mailing list microformats-discuss@microformats.org http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss