--- sorry if i came across as elitist, but that is my opinion. rel-tag is about tags, not how to setup tag spaces. I think it is a much better approach is to NOT change the spec to correspond with broken implementations. To encourage adoption, i would suggest (and many have) add to the wiki alternatives and ways to work around the limitations of servers and software. One of the biggest complains is with IIS. (i had a look on the wiki and it is burried) But there is software that can be installed on Windows to allow for the creation of Tagspaces.
I think this highlights the problem. In a perfect world, people will be motivated enough to follow standards. But in the real world, we're asking people to go to their organisation's server admins with "hey guys you have to install stuff on the servers for a purpose you don't know or care about because some spec requires we change our file structure". It makes it harder to sell the concept and if it comes down to something like standards compliance (eg. xhtml validation) vs. uf compliance, advocates will drop ufs for the larger goal. So while purity of uf standards is nice, rel-tag is restrictive in terms of URL requirements and this clashes with real world considerations like human nature :) So even if the decision is to stick with the standard, the uf movement had better accept that it will be that much harder to advocate for its adoption. So the support documentation had better be seriously hot. The wiki does need to expand on the material that's there and (as I mentioned elsewhere) the standards themselves could expand on the *reasons* behind the requirements they set. I've always found people are more receptive to fixing issues when they can understand the reason. When things seem arbitrary, people tend to dig their heels in far more. Just some thoughts anyway. cheers, Ben -- --- <http://weblog.200ok.com.au/> --- The future has arrived; it's just not --- evenly distributed. - William Gibson _______________________________________________ microformats-discuss mailing list microformats-discuss@microformats.org http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss
