On 24/06/2008, Manu Sporny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hey Manu,
Thanks for the links. I'm trying to keep track of all the converastions popping up around this. > > Some are moving too quickly to dismiss both Microformats AND RDFa - the > two communities are cross-pollinating and there has been significant > lessons learned from both approaches. If you're going to blog about this > or discuss it - please don't fuel the Microformats vs. RDFa fire by > picking sides... it's detrimental to both communities. Agreed. I'm so tired of this verses debate. This isn't a war where anyone has to pick a side. They can work along side one another. > Like Edd stated in his post, we have a bug that we need to fix (abbr > design pattern causing screen reader usability issues) and that has been > hanging over our heads for some time now. BBC's decision is a lesson > learned but is in no way some sort of sign that Microformats is on it's > way out. I don't know if you saw, but the discussion is happening over on dev [1] (mostly to get parser writer's feedback in the first instance) on how to deal with the abbr. There's been work by Ben Ward on the machine-data[2] options for a while now. I agree, this is just *one* issue that we've failed to solve so far. [1] http://microformats.org/discuss/mail/microformats-dev/2008-June/000552.html [2] http://microformats.org/wiki/machine-data -- Frances Berriman http://fberriman.com _______________________________________________ microformats-discuss mailing list microformats-discuss@microformats.org http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss