On Mar 20, 2007, at 5:09 AM, Michael Biven wrote:
On 3/20/07, Ryan King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Before proposing that we replace, replicate or extend hListing,
please experiment with it on actual examples and provide feedback
about its limitations. As of now, your objections are theoretical.
That you can count on. I have to disagree that my point is
theoretical, but instead it is practical. There is enough common
fields between each of the different types of real estate listings
that are not included with hListings, becasue it deals with a much
larger set of different types of unrelated "things" to list.
I'm sure you're an expert on real estate and other types of listings,
but before we can say that the various kinds of listings *on the web*
have field overlap, we need to do the research into existing
examples, analyzing them for implied schemata.
Microformats don't encode every possible bit of information, instead
they focus on the most common and useful parts.
To me that sentence in itself explains pretty well why people dealing
with real estate listings would benefit from having a separate
standard for them.
They also share vocabulary as much as possible, invent as little as
possible and are based on research into existing practice *on the web*.
-ryan
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Ryan King
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