>> Your always welcome to use HTML class name semantics or other microformat-inspired technologies in your private applications. However, that is a different thing that calling it a "microformat" and engaging this whole group in vetting and supporting it. If you think this could be a great solution to an existing problem, I encourage to just go ahead and implement it. As long as you don't call it a microformat, feel free to experiment. :-)
Well, why I'd prefer not to "go it alone" is for the very fact of not having the whole group in vet and support it... -Mike -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dr. Ernie Prabhakar Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2006 6:44 PM To: Microformats Discuss Subject: Re: [uf-discuss] Visible Data...a Microformat requirement? Hi Mike, Your always welcome to use HTML class name semantics or other microformat-inspired technologies in your private applications. However, that is a different thing that calling it a "microformat" and engaging this whole group in vetting and supporting it. If you think this could be a great solution to an existing problem, I encourage to just go ahead and implement it. As long as you don't call it a microformat, feel free to experiment. :-) - Ernie P. On Oct 25, 2006, at 3:15 PM, Mike Schinkel wrote: > Thanks Charles. > > However I still have no idea why these things apply to specifying > which page among of group of equivalent pages is authoritative and why > Microformats do not. The latter seem a perfect fit to me, and what > you listed either don't apply to general web pages, are years off and > can't be used today, are not related, or don't provide the features > needed. The microformat concept would work perfectly for this (and > similar problems.) > > -Mike > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Charles Iliya Krempeaux > Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2006 5:58 PM > To: Microformats Discuss > Subject: Re: [uf-discuss] Visible Data...a Microformat requirement? > > Hello Mike, > > XML, Semantic HTML, and RDF are closely related to what is being done > here. > > But there's alot of other technologies for specific areas. Like with > multimedia type thigns we have SMIL, XSPF, etc etc. > > For databases like things we have CSV, TSV, HTML tables, etc etc. > > (Obviously I'm not going to try to enumerate every "area" and every > technology... but hopefully this will give you an idea.) > > > > _______________________________________________ > microformats-discuss mailing list > microformats-discuss@microformats.org > http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss _______________________________________________ microformats-discuss mailing list microformats-discuss@microformats.org http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss _______________________________________________ microformats-discuss mailing list microformats-discuss@microformats.org http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss