- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Fri, 04 Apr 2008 11:10:17 +0200
- To: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- CC: Sam Ruby <rubys@us.ibm.com>, HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>, Public MathML mailing list <www-math@w3.org>
Henri Sivonen wrote: >> 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. Depends on the use case. It's a feature when it encourages re-use. It's a bug when it prevents you from doing what you need to do. BR, Julian
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