On 02/02/07, Colin Barrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Feb 1, 2007, at 7:31 AM, Charles Roper wrote: > What does the community feel should be the focus for species at > present? Now that I know that the analysis of existing practice is > about the existing *content* rather than existing *markup*, That's not entirely true. Existing markup plays a large role in what is published. Obviously it's not all going to be standardized, but if there are some common class names and general structure that is used, that may be taken into consideration, especially a case where, unlike hcard and hcalendar, there isn't already a commonly used format with a spec already written out. In a case like that, existing markup becomes very important.
Good point. I didn't mean imply that existing markup practice held no value whatsoever. I appreciate that using existing markup practice is a sensible course of action where appropriate.
The main idea right now would be to be discussing things on the brainstorming page. Read over Andy's strawman, debate it. If need be, draw up another draft, and another, until you can reach some kind of consensus amongst the interested parties. It may be relevant to "check in" with this list from time to time, but by and large people who are interested should be going to and talking on, the relevant wiki pages.
Understood.
You might want to consider writing up a document that explains some of the choices you made to someone with only passing (high school level) knowledge of taxonomy. Are there other taxonomical systems? Why did you chose this one? How standard is it? Are people using any informal standards that might be more widespread? If they are, why did you reject them?
All good suggestions, thank you. I agree that the answers should go on the wiki.
It might be helpful to add something like that to the microformats process itself -- I think it could be a helpful tool for specification writers to make them think about the document they're writing a little harder about exactly what they're doing.
I think you're right. Cheers, Charles -- Charles Roper www.sxbrc.org.uk _______________________________________________ microformats-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss
