On 12/7/06, Ryan King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>> Also, I'm not sure how 'people not getting their pet properties' is a >> problem specific to microformats. > > True. It doesn't mean it has to repeat the same mistake though. I > would certainly hope the HTML 5 effort would be open minded about > learning from all of the efforts in this space. HTML 5 has profile URIs and the specification is much more clear as to how they are to be used (thanks to Tantek bugging Hixie about that). I think HTML 5's current extension methods (profiles, rel and class) are sufficient.
Let's review: Microformts are a clever set of conventions to reuse existing HTML attributes to encode some sort of structured meaning. However, using "title" to encode machine-readable content is pretty much a hack. Title, after all, is really for human readable labels. Likewise, using class to indicate both properties and, um, class, is also a hack. These hacks are no doubt necessary and practical in the context of current HTML and I really have no problem with it in that context, but it's precseily why there can be no generic microformat parser. In a world in which one CAN consider adding alternative attributes (HTML 5, etc.), it makes no sense to me one would simply say "no." Bruce _______________________________________________ microformats-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss
