On Apr 1, 2007, at 7:33 PM, John wrote:
Scott Reynen wrote:
On Apr 1, 2007, at 6:03 PM, John wrote:
Similar to the Amazon wishlist, a user would be able to list
things that he wants using this microformat. Can be also thought
of as an opposite to hlisting.
What do the microformats list members think?
A user can already list things that he wants using HTML. What
would you expect machine parsers to do with this information? Or,
to quote the process [1]:
"Why?
There must be a problem to be solved. No problem, no microformat."
There is a problem.
Many auction websites have a "wanted" section, where people can
post what they want. They usually go unnoticed because they're
relatively few and it's very unlikely that someone will have one of
the items listed there.
Can you point to some examples of these wanted lists on auction
websites? Generally if they're relatively few, they're not
appropriate for a microformat (which targets the "low-hanging fruit"
of widely published data), but maybe these lists share semantics with
some type of information published more widely (e.g. job listings are
a sort of wanted list). I'm still not very clear on what we're
talking about and it would be helpful to see some examples.
--
Scott Reynen
MakeDataMakeSense.com
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