Abramo Bagnara wrote:
I feel a subtle hostility wrt this improvement attempt, I'm wrong?
I suspect many here are tired of fending off attempt after attempt at
generalization, as such attempts tend to come at a cost of simplicity
(and therefor adoption).
Less than a month ago [1], Tantek wrote:
microformats are not:
* infinitely extensible and open-ended
* a panacea for all taxonomies, ontologies, and other such
abstractions
* defining the whole world, or even just boiling the ocean
So yes, such "general purpose" or "universality" is an explicit NON-
goal.
You can read through the archives for a few dozen explanations of
this perspective.
Peace,
Scott
[1] http://microformats.org/discuss/mail/microformats-discuss/2005-
November/001904.html
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