On Mar 6, 2007, at 7:47 AM, Christopher St John wrote:
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.
Let me clarify that - Danny's 'ceci n'est pas une pipe' example is
clearly not 80%. There is a potential danger of people
misrepresenting things as microformats that aren't (eg spammers), but
requiring a profile in the head won't deter them.
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.
I'm all in favour of people presenting data more formally if they and
others will find it useful. However Danny was making a straw soupdragon.
Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others
to live as one wishes to live. - Oscar Wilde
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