Re: [uf-discuss] Regarding POSH and misuse of the microformats logo

2007-05-16 Thread Chris Messina
I'd rather not continue this thread any longer, but I do want to make a few observations, and then in vite anyone who wants to continue this discussion to note your reservations on the POSH talk page [1]. First, the pickup of microformats owes itself to a number of reasons, not merely the hard

Re: [uf-discuss] Regarding POSH and misuse of the microformats logo

2007-05-13 Thread Chris Messina
On 5/7/07, Keith Alexander [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm of the opinion that Semantic HTML is a perfectly fine term for Semantic HTML, and I'm a little sceptical of the utility of a new acronym for it. If there's a problem with people still not understanding semantic html, either the arguments

Re: [uf-discuss] Regarding POSH and misuse of the microformats logo

2007-05-13 Thread Ara Pehlivanian
On 5/13/07, Chris Messina [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It isn't that the arguments aren't clear enough or loudly enough; we've had a good 4-5 years of tooting the proverbial semantic horn. The problem is that, in a lesser amount of time, microformats have totally taken off and captured people's

Re: [uf-discuss] Regarding POSH and misuse of the microformats logo

2007-05-07 Thread Chris Messina
On 5/6/07, Patrick H. Lauke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Frances Berriman wrote: This is kind of why I have a problem with the POSH thing. Also, from a marketing perspective, I'd posit that plain and old are probably not the best terms to sex up and sell the idea. Except that that's the

Re: [uf-discuss] Regarding POSH and misuse of the microformats logo

2007-05-07 Thread Charles Iliya Krempeaux
Hello, If you really have to make up a new name... then how about... SHTML. (Short for Semantic HTML.) (It's similar in vein to XHTML.) SHTML is... Simple, to the point, and sexy :-) See ya On 5/6/07, Patrick H. Lauke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Frances Berriman wrote: This is kind of why

Re: [uf-discuss] Regarding POSH and misuse of the microformats logo

2007-05-07 Thread Charles Iliya Krempeaux
Hello, On 5/6/07, Charles Iliya Krempeaux [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, If you really have to make up a new name... then how about... SHTML. (Short for Semantic HTML.) (It's similar in vein to XHTML.) Sorry... I meant DHTML here. See ya SHTML is... Simple, to the point, and sexy :-)

Re: [uf-discuss] Regarding POSH and misuse of the microformats logo

2007-05-07 Thread Keith Alexander
If you really have to make up a new name... then how about... SHTML. (Short for Semantic HTML.) except that it is already well-known as a file extension for html containing Server Side Includes. ___ microformats-discuss mailing list

Re: [uf-discuss] Regarding POSH and misuse of the microformats logo

2007-05-07 Thread Christian Heilmann
If you really have to make up a new name... then how about... SHTML. (Short for Semantic HTML.) .shtml files exist. We don't need a new name for semantically valuable HTML, we need good tutorials explaining them. The only good HTML resource I can name when people ask me is Patrick's HTML Dog.

Re: [uf-discuss] Regarding POSH and misuse of the microformats logo

2007-05-07 Thread Frances Berriman
On 07/05/07, Christian Heilmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you really have to make up a new name... then how about... SHTML. (Short for Semantic HTML.) .shtml files exist. We don't need a new name for semantically valuable HTML, we need good tutorials explaining them. The only good HTML

Re: [uf-discuss] Regarding POSH and misuse of the microformats logo

2007-05-07 Thread Ara Pehlivanian
On 5/7/07, Charles Iliya Krempeaux [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, If you really have to make up a new name... then how about... SHTML. (Short for Semantic HTML.) (It's similar in vein to XHTML.) SHTML is... Simple, to the point, and sexy :-) I agree, except that it can easily be confused

Re: [uf-discuss] Regarding POSH and misuse of the microformats logo

2007-05-07 Thread Frances Berriman
On 07/05/07, Ara Pehlivanian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5/7/07, Charles Iliya Krempeaux [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, If you really have to make up a new name... then how about... SHTML. (Short for Semantic HTML.) (It's similar in vein to XHTML.) SHTML is... Simple, to the point, and

Re: [uf-discuss] Regarding POSH and misuse of the microformats logo

2007-05-07 Thread Keith Alexander
HTML should be semantic all the time. There shouldn't be another category of HTML that is, and one that isn't. Ideally perhaps, but as we all know (and this is the reason this discussion is taking place), most HTML on the web contains significant amounts of presentational markup.

Re: [uf-discuss] Regarding POSH and misuse of the microformats logo

2007-05-07 Thread Frances Berriman
On 07/05/07, Keith Alexander [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ideally perhaps, but as we all know (and this is the reason this discussion is taking place), most HTML on the web contains significant amounts of presentational markup. Presentational elements are still in the html 4 spec. Many tools

Re: [uf-discuss] Regarding POSH and misuse of the microformats logo

2007-05-07 Thread Patrick Griffiths
I'm of the opinion that Semantic HTML is a perfectly fine term for Semantic HTML, and I'm a little sceptical of the utility of a new acronym for it. If there's a problem with people still not understanding semantic html, either the arguments for it aren't being made clear enough and loud

Re: [uf-discuss] Regarding POSH and misuse of the microformats logo

2007-05-07 Thread Paul Wilkins
From: Andy Mabbett [EMAIL PROTECTED] ...which brings us back to the issue, now over a year old, that many of the pages on the 'wiki' need to be re-written in plain English. If you can furnish us with several examples perhaps gathered together on a wiki page, I'm sure that the uF army will

Re: [uf-discuss] Regarding POSH and misuse of the microformats logo

2007-05-06 Thread Chris Messina
I agree with Ben on this, and much of the other sentiment raised so far. To simplify this discussion, I think POSH is useful as a conceptual tool for reifying the definition of microformats: POSH Patterns: semantic practices resulting in meaningful markup Microformats: HTML-based data formats I

Re: [uf-discuss] Regarding POSH and misuse of the microformats logo

2007-05-06 Thread Patrick Griffiths
The fact that I think POSH is a ridiculous, unnecessary, and patronising initiative aside, these sentiments are spot-on. Semantic HTML comes first, microformats after. For POSH to catch on, it needs to appeal to web development (or certainly web standards) newcomers. Microformats is an

Re: [uf-discuss] Regarding POSH and misuse of the microformats logo

2007-05-06 Thread Keith Alexander
I think POSH is useful as a conceptual tool for reifying the definition of microformats: POSH Patterns: semantic practices resulting in meaningful markup Microformats: HTML-based data formats I think (at least) 3 distinctions need to be made: - 'vanilla' semantic HTML (using

Re: [uf-discuss] Regarding POSH and misuse of the microformats logo

2007-05-06 Thread Jeremy Keith
Chris Messina wrote: I believe that POSH should actually become it's own parallel effort to microformats -- and that the microformats wiki should link to external resources, documentation and best practices for all things POSH. Now, that doesn't have to happen right away, as we are still

Re: [uf-discuss] Regarding POSH and misuse of the microformats logo

2007-05-06 Thread Jon Tan
Keith Alexander wrote: I think POSH is useful as a conceptual tool for reifying the definition of microformats: POSH Patterns: semantic practices resulting in meaningful markup Microformats: HTML-based data formats I think (at least) 3 distinctions need to be made: - 'vanilla' semantic HTML

Re: [uf-discuss] Regarding POSH and misuse of the microformats logo

2007-05-06 Thread Patrick Griffiths
Jeremy Keith wrote: I think you might be missing a lot of the tongue-in-cheekiness of the term. Nobody thinks it's a particularly good or clever term but it's better than saying not a microformat as in when someone writes I've just created my own microformat and they are then told no, what

Re: [uf-discuss] Regarding POSH and misuse of the microformats logo

2007-05-06 Thread Frances Berriman
On 06/05/07, Patrick Griffiths [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Absolutely - I see a very important need for the microformats community to ensure basic semantic practices are understood. I'm just not This is kind of why I have a problem with the POSH thing. Yeah, it's meant to be a bit of a joke

Re: [uf-discuss] Regarding POSH and misuse of the microformats logo

2007-05-06 Thread Patrick H. Lauke
Frances Berriman wrote: This is kind of why I have a problem with the POSH thing. Yeah, it's meant to be a bit of a joke (and plenty of people are laughing) - but for those people that would actually benefit from improving their knowledge of HTML and semantics - seeing another acronym with

Re: [uf-discuss] Regarding POSH and misuse of the microformats logo

2007-05-05 Thread Jon Tan
Ben Ward wrote: Now the whole point of this is to differentiate semantic HTML from microformats, discourage the further ambiguation of the terms. So to be honest I'm a bit put out by the badges that have been added to http://microformats.org/wiki/posh#POSH_Bling_for_your_Blog which include

Re: [uf-discuss] Regarding POSH and misuse of the microformats logo

2007-05-05 Thread David Mead
I have to agree, and have cast my vote, that the use of the microformats logo with POSH isn't a good idea straight out of the gate. I do like Jon's badges so if I were to ever use one I'd be happy with one of those. Maybe I'm missing something but if you want to promote plain old semantic HTML

Re: [uf-discuss] Regarding POSH and misuse of the microformats logo

2007-05-04 Thread Frances Berriman
On 03/05/07, Andy Mabbett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If it is intended to be separate form microformats, then having so much about it on the microformat 'wiki' is somewhat misleading. I must admit that I have some qualms about having it on the microformats wiki also - if it's a term designed to

Re: [uf-discuss] Regarding POSH and misuse of the microformats logo

2007-05-04 Thread Ben Ward
Right, I've set up a vote for this on the Wiki. As explained in my Wiki commit comment, with the POSH page being something of a reference rather than a page of active microformat development, I judge it to be inappropriate to tack the vote on to the article itself and have created a

[uf-discuss] Regarding POSH and misuse of the microformats logo

2007-05-03 Thread Ben Ward
Hi all, I've obviously been following the recent push to have POSH adopted as a buzzword to discourage people from mis-using the term ‘microformat’ in their semantic endeavours. Now the whole point of this is to differentiate semantic HTML from microformats, discourage the further

Re: [uf-discuss] Regarding POSH and misuse of the microformats logo

2007-05-03 Thread Serdar Kiliç
On 03/05/2007, at 7:02 PM, Ben Ward wrote: As part of our ‘community mark’ experiment I'd like to object to that usage of the microformats logo and ask those badges be removed. Regardless of what anyone thinks of the term, POSH is explicitly supposed to be a super-set of microformats, a

Re: [uf-discuss] Regarding POSH and misuse of the microformats logo

2007-05-03 Thread Andy Mabbett
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Ben Ward [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes I've obviously been following the recent push to have POSH adopted as a buzzword to discourage people from mis-using the term ‘microformat’ in their semantic endeavours. Now the whole point of this is to differentiate semantic HTML