Re: [uf-discuss] Human and machine readable data format

2008-07-12 Thread Breton Slivka
On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 6:47 PM, Dan Brickley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Toby A Inkster wrote: Paul Wilkins wrote: We should leverage the computers ability to do the hard work for us. pDate span class=dateFriday, July the 11th 2008/span/p As I've said before, although my parser does support

Re: [uf-discuss] Human and machine readable data format

2008-07-12 Thread Jason Karns
The premise that publishers will pick any old format is merely an assertion with no evidence. Please show us an example somewhere else where this has happened, or perhaps a better argument than merely insisting on the obvious truth of it. The way I see it, if they publish in the wrong

[uf-discuss] Human and machine readable data format

2008-07-12 Thread Toby A Inkster
Breton Slivka wrote: The premise that publishers will pick any old format is merely an assertion with no evidence. Please show us an example somewhere else where this has happened, or perhaps a better argument than merely insisting on the obvious truth of it. I have previously mentioned the

Re: [uf-discuss] Human and machine readable data format

2008-07-12 Thread Zachary Carter
+1 for class=data- Hidden metadata isn't going away anytime soon. HTML 5 features it, RDF/RDFa uses it, the empty abbr pattern already does it, and many others. Best, Zach Carter On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 1:23 PM, Jason Karns [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The premise that publishers will pick any

Re: [uf-discuss] Human and machine readable data format

2008-07-12 Thread Paul Wilkins
On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 2:44 AM, Ameer Dawood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just one more thing to add. Microformats should be designed in such a way that authors are not obliqued to wrrite up a spcific date format for display to users. If we are to follow the idea of a machine-readable as well as

Re: [uf-discuss] Human and machine readable data format

2008-07-12 Thread David O
On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 9:47 PM, Paul Wilkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: With the current system authors are obliged to write up a specific date format for computers to parse, as well as one for humans to read. They should not have to produce both types on every occasion. If a parser isn't able