Re: [uf-discuss] Species microformat process

2007-02-02 Thread Colin Barrett
On Feb 1, 2007, at 7:31 AM, Charles Roper wrote: What does the community feel should be the focus for species at present? Now that I know that the analysis of existing practice is about the existing *content* rather than existing *markup*, That's not entirely true. Existing markup plays a

Re: [uf-discuss] Species microformat process

2007-02-02 Thread Charles Roper
On 02/02/07, Colin Barrett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Feb 1, 2007, at 7:31 AM, Charles Roper wrote: What does the community feel should be the focus for species at present? Now that I know that the analysis of existing practice is about the existing *content* rather than existing *markup*,

Re: [uf-discuss] Species microformat process

2007-02-01 Thread Charles Roper
Scott and Colin, many thanks for your replies; your feedback is much appreciated. On 31/01/07, Scott Reynen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So the important question is: what will it take to get publishers publishing the kind of species markup you'd like to see? That's a great question. I guess it's

Re: [uf-discuss] Species microformat process

2007-02-01 Thread Andy Mabbett
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Charles Roper [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes I'm very interested in the Species microformat, but the process seems to have stalled [...] Could it be that web designers and developers of the microformats community do not perceive the value of a species microformat in the

Fwd: [uf-discuss] Species microformat process

2007-02-01 Thread Benjamin West
AM Subject: Re: [uf-discuss] Species microformat process To: Andy Mabbett [EMAIL PROTECTED] To be honest, the use case for the species microformat is a little bit weak. In what way do you think it could be weak? What information do you think is lacking? It's not clear what the problem

Re: [uf-discuss] Species microformat process

2007-01-31 Thread Charles Roper
On 30/01/07, Benjamin West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 1/30/07, Charles Roper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm very interested in the Species microformat, but the process seems to have stalled and I just wanted to poll opinion here as to why that might be. Is it due to a lack of demand? To be

Re: [uf-discuss] Species microformat process

2007-01-31 Thread Scott Reynen
On Jan 31, 2007, at 1:06 PM, Charles Roper wrote: I think what I'm trying to get at here is this: at present my feeling (and this is just a feeling) is that the microfomats gaining most traction are ones that are related quite closely to social networking and, dare I say it, Web 2.0 concepts.

Re: [uf-discuss] Species microformat process

2007-01-31 Thread Colin Barrett
On Jan 31, 2007, at 11:06 AM, Charles Roper wrote: I also wanted to ask about the fundamental microformat principle of paving the cowpaths in relation to hCard. It seems to me that hCard was derived from vCard rather than being based on existing markup practice. How does this square up

[uf-discuss] Species microformat process

2007-01-30 Thread Charles Roper
I'm very interested in the Species microformat, but the process seems to have stalled and I just wanted to poll opinion here as to why that might be. Is it due to a lack of demand? It seems that the successful microformats have been developed, in the main, by web designers and developers for web

Re: [uf-discuss] Species microformat process

2007-01-30 Thread Benjamin West
On 1/30/07, Charles Roper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm very interested in the Species microformat, but the process seems to have stalled and I just wanted to poll opinion here as to why that might be. Is it due to a lack of demand? Charles, I don't know about demand, but I do know that many