On Sep 25, 2006, at 6:21 AM, Paul Denning wrote:
At 04:29 PM 2006-09-19, Ryan King wrote:
Create your own
standard markup
If I create my own, then it may be "my" standard, but its a far cry
from being a widespread or universal standard.
I know. Jumping from no practice to "universal standard" is not a way
to create a good format.
I am not in the group in my company that develops the applications
that use employee numbers. I am a user of those applications. I
may develop a bookmarklet that can make it easier to use the
services that they make available.
If I suggest to them that they add something like
<abbr class="employeeid" title="12345">12345</abbr>
to all pages that display the employee number, they are more likely
to make the change if I say that this is a microformat that is
being used across many industries as defined on http://
microformats.org .
This sounds like a hypothetical. Have you asked or not?
I don't think any old use of the patterns [1] should be considered
a "microformat". To be considered a "microformat", use of these
patterns [1] should be vetted through a process [2] to gain
widespread appeal.
I proposed earlier that you create your own format for use inside
your own company. In that situation, why does it matter if the format
you're using is in any external sense a microformat?
At Technorati, we have all sorts of internal APIs and formats which
we've completely made up. The fact that no outside body has endorsed
them doesn't make them any less useful.
-ryan
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