Thanks a lot Tantek. That's exactly the kind of feedback I was seeking. I have made a few changes (added a couple new slides, modified a few slides). Please let me know if this now captures the "purpose of Microformats."
http://www.xfront.com/microformats/Purpose-of-Microformats.html Thanks! /Roger -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tantek Çelik Sent: Saturday, October 14, 2006 8:20 PM To: microformats-discuss Subject: Re: [uf-discuss] ANN: The Purpose of Microformats On 10/14/06 1:50 PM, "Costello, Roger L." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Folks, > > I have written a short presentation titled, The Purpose of > Microformats. > > http://www.xfront.com/microformats/Purpose-of-Microformats.html > > I welcome your comments and suggestions. Roger, this looks *excellent*. One major comment. What you have described is not the purpose of microformats. What you have described is the purpose of using semantic class names, which modern web developers have been doing in large numbers since 2002, and originally as early as some of the earliest work that Dan Connolly did at W3C. http://microformats.org/wiki/semantic-class-names Microformats are *much* more than just using semantic class names, and unless you cover the differences, then it may actually cause *more* confusion to people if they get the impression that simply by using semantic values in the class attribute, that they are using microformats. E.g. here is a slide from a recent presentation that touches on some of the key differences: http://tantek.com/presentations/2006/09/microformats-practices/#slide23 Thanks, Tantek _______________________________________________ microformats-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss _______________________________________________ microformats-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss
