If you are sick of the ISO date disagreement, you may want to skip this message.
> -----Original Message----- > Message: 4 > Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:09:46 +0000 > From: "Brian Suda" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [uf-discuss] Benefits of Microformats > To: "Microformats Discuss" <[email protected]> > Message-ID: > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 12:30 PM, George Brocklehurst > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> 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 > > --- i think that really needs to be updated. They are missing the > point of semantic mark-up over flat files completely. Firstly, flat > files are out-of-sight and therefore out-of-mind. The data drift is > much more likely than files (HTML) you stare at on a daily basis. So are abbr tags hiding ISO dates. I can see somebody changing the publicly visible date and forgetting to change the hidden ISO date. This of course is not an issue for programmatically generated pages, but it is certainly an issue for manually-edited ones. (This is also assuming the content entry person can reliably generate ISO dates and times in the first place.) Data drift is a very big argument against using hidden ISO dates, and human-friendliness is a very big argument against showing them. One more reason not to use ISO dates. Hope this helps, Charles "Chas" Belov SFMTA Webmaster _______________________________________________ microformats-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss
