On 7/2/07, Patrick H. Lauke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Benjamin West wrote: > http://tantek.com/log/2005/06.html#d03t2359 "Principles of visibility > and human friendliness". > > One question invisible metadata raises is if it's not worth seeing, > why is it worth publishing?Because tools/extensions expose them to end users in a way that is far more user/human friendly than merely making the raw metadata visible. Whether or not authors "forget" to update the metadata, or purposely try to game it, if it's not visible is an authoring/policy issue, not a technical issue that should be solved by a language's specification ("because some bad people tried to do bad things with it, we're just not giving you the opportunity, full stop"). P -- Patrick H. Lauke
I'm not sure what you mean. We aren't talking about raw data. We are talking about data that has been marked up. In addition, no one has said there is some kind of mutually exclusive relationship between authors of visible vs invisible data. FWIW, nothing in microformats actually prohibits invisible metadata. It's certainly possible to set display:none. In fact, the phrasing quoted by Andy was "visible data is much better for humans than invisible metadata". -Ben _______________________________________________ microformats-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss
