Ryan & Chris,
On Nov 24, 2005, at 11:15 PM, Ryan King wrote:
On Nov 24, 2005, at 2:19 PM, Chris Messina wrote:
Microformats are for general purpose use, like flour and sugar. Using
them you can build things as interesting as pizza or as simple as
bread. However, a microformat for pizza would probably be
inappropriate or not worth standardizing since its fundamental
ingredients can be broken down further into more atomic units.
Chris, you've made an interesting analogy. Please indulge me as I
expand on it (beware, I'm still recovering from my thanksgiving-day
food coma)...
In my own tryptophan-induced semi-conscious state, I have to weigh
(ouch) in on this...
First, microformats = sugar
<rant>
Microformats are salt, not sugar!
Like salt, microformats are designed to bring out what is already
there. Hence the term 'semantic salt', which -surfaces- the latent
structure in HTML; by contrast with 'syntactic sugar', which tries to
-hide- ugly details.
</rant>
-- Ernie P.
P.S. Yeah, I know Ryan was making a completely different point, but I
couldn't pass up the chance to preach from my favorite soapbox...
Mmmm, food.
Dang, now you've gone and made me hungry. Not like I needed any
more food after last week....
_______________________________________________
microformats-discuss mailing list
[email protected]
http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss
