- From: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2008 11:45:59 +0300
- To: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Cc: Sam Ruby <rubys@us.ibm.com>, HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>, Public MathML mailing list <www-math@w3.org>
On Apr 4, 2008, at 11:12, Julian Reschke wrote: >> Microformats and ARIA extend HTML as overlays in order to create >> something that can be supported on some browsers but not in others >> an still not disrupt the others. > > Microformats suffer from the central registry. Feature, not bug. To enable communication between parties who aren't coordinating bilaterally, it's good to have a central bulletin board announcing new vocabularies so that different parties know to adopt the same vocabulary. I'm inclined to think that mechanisms that try to avoid letting others know about the extensions are flawed as they lead to Babelization when different corners of the Web reinvent the wheel instead of checking microformats.org, whatwg.org or w3.org in case the wheel already exists. -- Henri Sivonen hsivonen@iki.fi http://hsivonen.iki.fi/
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