Re: [uf-discuss] Need for plain-language intros for each microformat

2007-09-01 Thread Andy Mabbett
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Andy Mabbett [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Tantek Çelik [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Syntactically the URI would still work, however, semantically it would have been broken, that is, it is bad to not only change URIs so that they 404 and just

Re: [uf-discuss] Need for plain-language intros for each microformat

2007-08-30 Thread Tantek Çelik
Replying to several messages in this thread in one reply: On 8/29/07 9:05 AM, Andy Mabbett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, August 29, 2007 16:40, Brian Suda wrote: On 8/29/07, Manu Sporny [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [Manu's post hasn't arrived here, yet; I think my ISP has server trouble.]

Re: [uf-discuss] Need for plain-language intros for each microformat

2007-08-30 Thread Andy Mabbett
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Tantek Çelik [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Replying to several messages in this thread in one reply: --- moving the specs would break links from all over the web and in dead tree books that say you can view the hCard spec at ... Cool URIs don't change. It is probably

Re: [uf-discuss] Need for plain-language intros for each microformat

2007-08-30 Thread John Allsopp
Andy et. Al. I have, not for the first time, been told by an advocacy correspondent that they have read pages on the wiki, such as http://microformats.org/wiki/hCard and http://microformats.org/wiki/hCalendar, and are none-the-wiser as to what microformats in general, and the specific

Re: [uf-discuss] Need for plain-language intros for each microformat

2007-08-29 Thread Manu Sporny
Andy Mabbett wrote: I think it's time we moved the specs to *-spec or *-specification, and used the root page for each microformat, such as the above, for a plain-language introduction, taking care to avoid jargon as much as possible. +1 for this idea. There have been several times where I've

Re: [uf-discuss] Need for plain-language intros for each microformat

2007-08-29 Thread Ciaran McNulty
On 8/29/07, Brian Suda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- moving the specs would break links from all over the web and in dead tree books that say you can view the hCard spec at ... Cool URIs don't change. It is probably a better idea create new pages about each format and point people to those

Re: [uf-discuss] Need for plain-language intros for each microformat

2007-08-29 Thread Andy Mabbett
On Wed, August 29, 2007 16:40, Brian Suda wrote: On 8/29/07, Manu Sporny [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [Manu's post hasn't arrived here, yet; I think my ISP has server trouble.] Andy Mabbett wrote: I think it's time we moved the specs to *-spec or *-specification, and used the root page for

Re: [uf-discuss] Need for plain-language intros for each microformat

2007-08-29 Thread Angus McIntyre
On Wed, August 29, 2007 10:59 am, Manu Sporny wrote: Andy Mabbett wrote: I think it's time we moved the specs to *-spec or *-specification, and used the root page for each microformat, such as the above, for a plain-language introduction, taking care to avoid jargon as much as possible. +1