Hi Folks, Here are a few thoughts about how Microformats enable mashups. Comments welcome. /Roger
Hyperlinks are considered fundamental to the Web. And deservedly so. They enable a Web document to connect to other documents. Stated differently, they enable information to connect to other information. In today's world the emphasis is on being able to "combine information". That is, we want to do mashups. Consider a Web document that links to another document. One can envision an application which combines the two documents. Thus, an application can mashup the Web document with the documents it is linked to. But what about mashups with other documents, for which it does not link to? That is, what about unanticipated mashups? More ... http://www.xfront-wiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Microformats:_Enabling_ Unanticipated_Mashups _______________________________________________ microformats-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss
