On 3/6/07, Kevin Marks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Mar 5, 2007, at 3:31 AM, Danny Ayers wrote: > Thought this might be useful: > > http://dannyayers.com/misc/microformats/soupdragon http://epeus.blogspot.com/2007/03/hot-news-people-lie.html Or, as we say round here, 'not 80%'
The 80% thing has become nearly meaningless. Except if you translate it into "It's not 80% of my personal use cases, so you shut up!", which is meaningful but useless. You don't need to buy into a "strong semantic web" scenario to appreciate that some people wish to use microformats in a more formal way. Formality can be useful if you expect your data to sometimes be processed mechanically with minimal human intervention and don't want to be misunderstood. It's not nearly as useful when the data is for immediate presentation to a human (like screen-scraper browser plugins), but then again it doesn't hurt those use cases, either. Having tools and documentation for those cases seems to be helpful without doing any harm. -cks -- Christopher St. John http://artofsystems.blogspot.com _______________________________________________ microformats-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss
