[microformats-discuss] Developer Adoption

[Andy Hume]

On 14 Jul 2005, at 00:17, Ryan King wrote:


> On Jul 13, 2005, at 4:08 PM, Andy Hume wrote:
>
>>
>> IMHO these early formats will be the key to encouraging developer  
>> uptake because they work here and now, and can be useful in a real  
>> world way. Do we need a developer adoption drive?
>>
>>
>
> Yes and no. To some degree, its already happening without an  
> explicit drive pushing it. On the other hand, education and  
> evangelism is always helpful.
>
> And there's nothing holding anyone back from doing this on their  
> own. I know Tantek and I both regularly email people suggesting  
> that they implement a specific microformat on their site.
>

For sure Ryan, I just don't want to encourage potentially thousands  
of people to author their microformats in a particular way - and then  
you guys to tell me it may have been better some other way. ;)


>>
>> What are your feelings on this? And what specific mark-up example  
>> do you believe would be appropriate for this?
>>
>
> hCalendar makes for good examples, too, because many sites are  
> already publishing events,
>

...and all sites are publishing contact details, hence my choice of  
hcard.


Andy


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