> If you know what you're looking for, you'll find it. > If you don't know what you're looking for, why are you > looking for it?
Why? Serendipity. Sometimes you don't know you're looking for something till you find it. One tenet of usable design, for example, is discoverability. Why not make Microformats more discoverable? You put it there for a reason. Let's make it easy to find. Let me contrast this to the RSS aggregator situation. With RSS Bandit for example, I can subscribe to a feed by simply entering the URL to a person's home page. RSS Bandit auto-discovers any feeds on the page and then displays a list of feeds if more than one exists. I can choose the one I want and now I'm subscribed. I can envision something similar with Microformats. Suppose I point my brand spanking new Microformats enabled RSS Bandit towards http://glazkov.com/ and it pops up a list of various Microformats on that page. Wonderful! The bummer is that I may miss out on your Down Home Alabama/Russian Fusion Cuisine Recipes which just happen to be on another page. Why deny the world a grits and salted herring dish? Phil -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dimitri Glazkov Sent: Friday, March 24, 2006 7:18 AM To: Microformats Discuss Subject: Re: [uf-discuss] Enumerating Microformats on a Page This has been an on-and-off discussion that ought to be documented somewhere -- well, at least its progress. I wouldn't say that there's a total agreement on how it should be done, but here's my opinionated take: If you know what you're looking for, you'll find it. If you don't know what you're looking for, why are you looking for it? Look at Tails (http://blog.codeeg.com/tails-firefox-extension) -- it finds everything it understands, and nothing else. It won't find hAtom, because it doesn't understand it. And it's perfectly fine -- if you don't hAtom, I don't want you to be looking for it. :DG< _______________________________________________ microformats-discuss mailing list microformats-discuss@microformats.org http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss
