>> microformats have always been intended to simply solve common real-world problems in an 80/20 fashion. This limitation is quite deliberate, and is key to microformats being *actually* useful in the immediate/nearterm future, as opposed to *theoretically* useful in some ideal/imaginary world where boil the ocean (BTO) solutions have some how magically altered human culture and society as a whole to radically change behavior and adopt them wholesale.
There is nothing in what I'm envisioning or proposing that would make them theoretical. I would just like to address more areas that it appears you want to address. -Mike Schinkel http://www.mikeschinkel.com/blogs/ http://www.welldesignedurls.org/ -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tantek Ç elik Sent: Tuesday, November 07, 2006 1:22 PM To: microformats-discuss Subject: Re: [uf-discuss] Mailing list debate moved & new proposal On 11/7/06 9:59 AM, "Mike Schinkel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> You seem to assume that we want to scale. :D However, those >>> solutions are against the grain of microformats. >>> They'd no longer be simple, they'd no longer work together. There >>> would > be too many of them. > > Then I am getting more and more disenchanted with the whole > MicroFormat concept. Microformats will be nowhere nearly as useful I > as first assumed it to be. To be clear Mike, microformats were never envisioned to solve all format problems, or metaformat problems etc. That ocean boiling is better left to many others who are pursuing those goals. microformats have always been intended to simply solve common real-world problems in an 80/20 fashion. This limitation is quite deliberate, and is key to microformats being *actually* useful in the immediate/nearterm future, as opposed to *theoretically* useful in some ideal/imaginary world where boil the ocean (BTO) solutions have some how magically altered human culture and society as a whole to radically change behavior and adopt them wholesale. http://microformats.org/wiki/microformats Thanks, Tantek _______________________________________________ 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