Dude, you are giving me a headache.
On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 9:55 AM, David Janes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 9:09 AM, Samuel Richter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> It seems to me that both hAtom and hDOAP present limitations of a sort >> when it comes to providing feeds for software updates. On the one >> hand with hAtom, you have a generic microformat with no way of >> identifying any content beyond it merely being feed content and with >> hDOAP, you have no mechanism for providing update information. Do you >> see the gap I'm trying to show? > > It's rather difficult to discuss this in the abstract, without a real > world example to pin it against. > > The utility of the markup is often as much defined by _it's use_ and > _it's user_ as anything: if you know that http://projects.example.com > lists has project information that's marked up in hAtom, then that's > very different than if you don't care about projects or that page. > > Note that hAtom's purpose is not to provide "feeds" for anything: it's > a way of semantically marking up certain types of data on pages. > > Regards, etc... > > -- > David Janes > Mercenary Programmer > http://code.davidjanes.com > _______________________________________________ > 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