Thanks everyone. I'll try to reply to every comment individually. (removed original comments to keep it short)
David: I wasn't suggesting "replacing" atom/rss... I wanted to ask for use-cases or motivation to markup content that is also available through atom/rss feeds with hatom. My English betrayed me on that title, I guess. :) Zhang Zhen: yes, hslices are a good reason. if nothing else, provides alternative ways of subscribing to content. via atom/rss feeds & hatom/hslice in IE8. Toby: I can see why you'd want to do that, in terms of proof of concept, but in the real world it's not a convincing "advantage". Unless you're limited in terms of features, like a blog @ wordpress.com. Mark Ng: Whoa! Never thought of that... it would be cool if there was a way to paginate hatom feeds like xfn with rel="next". Is there? Brian: That seems like a good argument... but only if crawlers actually use that increased semantic value. I have no data about that. If someone else still has more examples of use-cases, I'd be happy to hear them. -- André Luís On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 9:25 AM, Brian Suda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2008/5/28, Mark Ng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> > 2008/5/28 André Luís <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> > >> > Can someone provide me with a real use case? > > --- someone else can confirm the details, but sites like technorati > (and/or google/yahoo!) crawl the HTML pages and attempt to use > heuristics to determine what the title, summary, publication date and > other entry items could be. By adding the additional semantics of > hAtom, you are making things explicit and then they can avoid guessing > at what you mean, and understand what you intended. > > Applications like Flock or Reblog could build plugins, so when you > right-click on the HTML page on the hAtom entry, the context menu > could understand where the post starts and stops, and extract other > metadata. This interaction takes place on the page were you are > viewing the text, rather than in some secondary RSS reading tool. > > -brian > > -- > brian suda > http://suda.co.uk > > _______________________________________________ > microformats-discuss mailing list > microformats-discuss@microformats.org > http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss > _______________________________________________ microformats-discuss mailing list microformats-discuss@microformats.org http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss