- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2006 03:02:04 +0000 (UTC)
On Mon, 11 Dec 2006, Mike Schinkel wrote: > > What's needed is a single and "officially recognized" clearing house for > anything metadata tagged to HTML attributes. It isn't clear to me that this is true. I believe this is one of the reasons we are having difficulties with this conversation -- we're starting from different initial assumptions. > -- Microformats.org should become a clearing house for "official" > microformats using the structure below. > -- There would be three classes of Microformats: horizontal and > vertical/specific, and vendor. Your use of the term "microformat" seems very loose. A microformat isn't just anything that uses keywords in HTML's extension attributes; a microformat is a format that has gone through the very rigorous process of research, design, and public study that Microformats.org documents. The entire concept of a vendor-specific microformat is an oxymoron, for instance. We've managed to survive quite well without a "clearing house" for ways of marking up metadata; I don't understand why we would need anything as formal as you request. With a place for people to come together and discuss proposals (the WHATWG wiki at the moment), and with the natural market forces that human endeavours like this end up involving, I don't really see that there's anything to solve. At least not yet. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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