On 8/29/07, Manu Sporny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Andy Mabbett wrote: > > I think it's time we moved the specs to *-spec or *-specification, and > > used the "root" page for each microformat, such as the above, for a > > plain-language introduction, taking care to avoid jargon as much as > > possible.
--- moving the specs would break links from all over the web and in dead tree books that say "you can view the hCard spec at ..." Cool URIs don't change. It is probably a better idea create new pages about each format and point people to those instead and link the specs to them. > There have been several times where I've pointed > somebody to a uF specification page to give them an overview and they > just come back claiming that the page didn't really tell them > anything... or worse, it confused them. --- while i agree that a good explication of what hCard, et al are, the specs are not always the best place too put this. "... I've pointed somebody to a uF specification page to give them an overview ..." The simple answer would be to create another overview page and point interested people there. When you want to learn more about HTML, do you look at the w3c spec or do you look else where? what is that else where? sometimes it is a primer, or info, or examples, or explanation, or about pages, sometimes they are w3c controlled sometimes not. http://microformats.org/wiki/hcard-overview http://microformats.org/wiki/hcard-about http://microformats.org/wiki/hcard-primer http://microformats.org/wiki/hcard-my-thoughts http://microformats.org/wiki/hcard-info http://microformats.org/wiki/hcard-explained could all be candidates for better explaining what an hCard is... as well, it doesn´t have to be hosted here. As was pointed out, the wikipedia entry is also a good place to explain the explanation and tell people they can read that as well. Microformats are all about bottom-up, we don´t need a central silo for "all things microformats". It is OK to have discussions, definitions about formats NOT on our wiki. I´m all for cleaning things-up and giving more explanations, but this shouldn't be to the detriment of the specs and existing links, especially when it is so easy to create new pages on the wiki. -brian -- brian suda http://suda.co.uk _______________________________________________ microformats-discuss mailing list microformats-discuss@microformats.org http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss
