[microformats-discuss] Visible metadata

[Jeff Lindsay]

Robert, 

I don't believe what he meant was to belittle your opinion, but to
remind you of a basic collective goal with microformats: simply
provide a semantic markup to solve common problems or represent common
datatypes. Specifying a format for the value that the markup describes
should be avoided. It's "forcing people" to use the markup in a
particular way that's out of the scope of what microformats are trying
to accomplish.

Does that sound right?

On 7/25/05, Robert Bachmann <rbach at rbach.priv.at> wrote:
> Ryan King wrote:
> > On Jul 24, 2005, at 6:03 PM, Robert Bachmann wrote:
> >
> >> Ryan King wrote:
> >>
> >>> As many have noticed, the <abbr> for date/time gets reused alot...so,
> >>> I think it could stand to be refactored out into its own elemental
> >>> microformat. What do you think?
> >>
> >>
> >> I think every date/time on the web should be expressed using
> >> <abbr title="YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM">...</abbr>.
> >
> >
> > I would agree, but let's not get ahead of ourselves. :)
> >
> > Remember, we're not telling anyone what they should do- we're just
> > trying to provide tools for them to accomplish their goals (and
> > semantic markup is a meaningful goal for many).
> >
> 
> Just for clarification.
> I was _not_ telling anyone what he/she should do, I solely expressed my
> opinion. An opinion which grounds on the possible benefits outlined
> below in my original post.
> 
> Robert
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