On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 12:59 PM, Dan Brickley <dan...@danbri.org> wrote: > Hi folks
Hi Dan, apologies for the late reply, we've been busy with a server move (yes, the microformats server has moved to much better hosting! more on that in a blog post), but it does seem like everything is working properly on the new server, and as far as we can tell, aside from a few hours of read-only time on the wiki, microformats.org was up continuously across the transition. > I liked the direction Microformats 2 was heading in - simpler > conceptual model and more consistent documentation. Checking back to > see how things are, > http://microformats.org/wiki/index.php?title=microformats-2&action=history > it seems that page is fairly stable lately. Indeed, the basic structure and functionality of microformats-2 syntax and vocabularies have been quite stable, with only minor tweaks (if any) made in many months. > Is that an indication of consensus that the design is more or less > right, ... or a lack of enthusiasm in moving things in that direction? Hopefully the former. :) All outstanding issues that were raised have been resolved, and various folks have started to move forward with publishing microformats-2 markup in the wild. There's even a short section on the wiki listing some: http://microformats.org/wiki/microformats-2#Examples_in_the_wild Please feel free to add your own pages/sites that are publishing microformats-2. And if you're working on a parser, try parsing the referenced examples and see what you get. > If I wanted to get my hands dirty with test cases and a parser, is > anyone working on parsing tools? Re: test cases: We don't have any stand-alone test-cases yet beyond what is on the microformats-2 page itself (in terms of markup and respective JSON output). Do you have a preferred format for test cases? Re: parsing tools I know that Ben Ward is working on a javascript native microformats-2 parser, and every other existing microformats parser is in various states of progress to adding microformats-2 support, sometimes in the same time as HTML5 <time> and <data> support as well. Since microformats-2 parsing support is drastically simpler than current microformats, I expect to see somewhat rapid progress here, at least to handle common cases, and we'll see if edge cases reveal any challenges in the overall design or implementations. > Looking in the page for mentions of > parsers, I only see discussion on relationship between parsers for > v1-style markup and the new approach. The discussions I've seen about writing/updating parsers to support microformats-2 have been either informal or on IRC so far, where a lot more discussion seems to happen these days than on the mailing list (perhaps a good time to give the list a heads up in case people here want to check out IRC) http://microformats.org/wiki/irc irc://irc.freenode.net/microformats Thanks, Tantek _______________________________________________ microformats-discuss mailing list microformats-discuss@microformats.org http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss
