On 8/21/07, Tara Hunt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is an awesome post and goes back to a discussion I became very > frustrated in a while back:
IMHO, the ideal state of the end user is they see (for example) Tara's name on a webpage and they just click to copy the microformat to their address book. Underneath, they don't care how all the plumbing gets there to make this work, they just do the action. What will they call this action? When most people use technology, it's all just magic words: TCP/IP, HTTP, HTML, e-mail, hook up the cable modem, push the brake peddle: simple invocations that refer to using technology that underneath _they really have no idea how it operates_. Our job as technologists is to make using microformats as magical as that. As to nomenclature, "Microformats" is as good a magic word as any other proposal I've heard, and probably better than most. Regards, etc... -- David Janes Founder, BlogMatrix http://www.blogmatrix.com http://blogmatrix.blogmatrix.com _______________________________________________ microformats-discuss mailing list microformats-discuss@microformats.org http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss
