[microformats-discuss] Developer Adoption

Ryan King ryan at technorati.com
Thu Jul 14 11:40:45 PDT 2005


On Jul 14, 2005, at 11:38 AM, Josh Owens wrote:
> On 7/14/05, Carl Beeth <carl.beeth at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> My question would be, will there ever be much of an advantage to  
>>> the user
>>> to utilize a scraping tool over .ics files?
>> The fact that the event is embedded in the HTML page allows the
>> user-agent to do cool stuff with the data.
>
> What is this cool stuff you speak of?

Just imagine that someone wrote a browser which recognized microformats.

-ryan


> I guess I am looking at this from a
> crawler/aggregator point of view, for something like
> Agnda.com<http://www.agnda.com/>.
> In terms of hCal, what would the user do with the info, besides  
> move it into
> their calendar app of choice?


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