Hi all,
After discovering some misinformation about Microformats on the new
stackoverflow.com programmer Q&A site and a few conversations last
night at the Microformats London dinner I felt there was a need to add
a page to the wiki explaining the benefits of Microformats to
publishers. We do a great job at telling people what ufs are and how
to use them, but we're not so great at telling people why they should
care.
So, I give you http://microformats.org/wiki/benefits
Please do add to, edit and generally improve on the things already
listed.
As an aside, if anyone's interested this is the accepted answer to
"should I used Microformats?" on stackoverflow.com that got me
thinking about the benefits page. Given that the stated aim of Stack
Overflow is to become the canonical online guide to all things
programming, I wanted to fix it:
I think almost anything you'd like to put into a microformat you
could make something with a "full" format. hCard.. you could just
make a simple vCard file. hCalendar? Make an icalendar file you
update and link to it. The advantage to NOT using microformats is
that you can use almost any application that supports calendar/
contact etc information and point them at the "full" format instead
of the microformat, which requires consumer applications to add more
functionality.
To me, that's just the state of things now. I have no technical
reason to not use them. I just think that if you just make the
"full" format, applications consuming this information are more
likely to support/handle it. Though the rel="me" stuff is extra
information that you don't get from other things. I'd say use those
since they're easy, and adds information that no other format/
standard really does (that I know of).
Thanks,
G
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