On 11/25/05, Ryan King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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)... > > First, microformats = sugar, flour, or other elemental ingredients > (see http://microformats.org/wiki/elemental-microformat). > > Microformats also included some compounds (which you'd buy from the > store, but could also make yourself), like cranberry sauce (I dunno, > my family doesn't make it from scratch, I also don't eat it :D). > > Now people have been making food (sematic xhtm) for a long time, but > everyone was always making everything from scratch, even grinding > their flour and refining their own sugar. > > Finally, some people decided to get together and make the basics, > which others could then reuse in their own recipes. The benefits of > this arrangement are obvious, I can make mashed potatoes and gravy > without having to make butter (inc. milking the cow) myself. > > Mmmm, food. >
Oh man, you are making me hungry. :-) And it is healthiest to stick to raw veggies (XHTML Compounds) when you can. Also it is best to use organically produced ingredients. This is my favorite analogy so far. - Luke _______________________________________________ microformats-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss
