Hi All! I've been lurking for a while and truly appreciate all of the great work going into microformats right now!
I saw a message on the Structured Blogging mailing list that got me thinking about a format-of-formats... a standard way to describe a format. My thoughts are here: http://www.joereger.com/entry-logid7-eventid5003-Structured-Blogging-FormatofFormats.log As I posted, I realized that I haven't checked in with Tantek and others regarding the concept of a format-of-formats. I've seen a lot of Atom/RDF used. I was a proponent of XML Schema a while back. I've been dabbling with Xforms. XUL is out there. My basic position is that we should be able to provide a common format for the description of a microformat. By creating a standard to describe the formats we free toolmakers to create an implementation and then be done with it. Once we have support from WordPress, MT, Drupal, LJ, etc then we can spawn microformats more quickly, requiring little or no development on the toolmaker part. Toolmakers will compete by providing advanced features in their implementation (like CSS override hooks, see blog post). Aggregators like Technorati/PubSub will be able to build advanced functionality on top of specific formats and will compete at that level. For example, Technorati may create Technorati Music while PubSub may create PubSub Movies... their investment differentiates and end-users win. Is this format-of-formats already done? If so, I apologize, can you point me to it? If not, what has been done and would it be premature for me to start work on such a draft specification (after much feedback from everybody here, of course)? Thanks for getting me up to speed! Keep up the great work! Best, Joe Reger _______________________________________________ microformats-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss
