- From: David Singer <singer@apple.com>
- Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2010 13:55:15 -0700
- To: HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>
> Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.' > Then I suggest someone else makes sure that the formal registry is correct, if the editor is unwilling/unable to do that. A wiki has all the problems listed below, alas. A formal registry is a place where you can go to find out what is actually happening, as opposed to wikis, which can gather arbitrary input from arbitrary arbitrary-minded people (not that we have any of those in this community, of course). On Sep 1, 2010, at 12:03 , Ian Hickson wrote: > On Wed, 1 Sep 2010, Julian Reschke wrote: >> >> Ian, would you consider re-submitting the application data registration >> using this set of fields? > > No, my experience was far too painful. I really don't see any value in > using an IANA registry for this at this point. The Microformats wiki seems > quite sufficient and orders of magnitude easier to deal with (there's no > need to wait for someone to approve a tentative registration, for example, > you can just edit the wiki and be done; updates can be done as needed, > there's no restriction on who can do it; there's far more focus on real > world deployment than theoretical spec stability; there's an active > community updating the registry on their own without needing people to > submit applications for approval, etc). > > -- > Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL > http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. > Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.' > David Singer Multimedia and Software Standards, Apple Inc.
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