[microformats-discuss] URIs please!

[Tantek Çelik]

Carl,

These are *excellent* questions.   And good answers Ryan.

I've reworded/simplified them a bit and added them to the (new) XMDP 
FAQ page.

  http://microformats.org/wiki/xmdp-faq

And I have lots more in my queue to add to that page.

Thanks,

Tantek

On Jul 14, 2005, at 11:12 AM, Ryan King wrote:

> On Jul 14, 2005, at 11:01 AM, Carl Beeth wrote:
>> Please be aware I'm not a developer so these question may seem very 
>> stupid:
>>
>> Why as a site administrator I should care about profiles as they are
>> not needed for the microformat to be valid?
>
> Because it will help UAs which are trying to parse your documents.
>
> I would also say "to follow the spec" (as in the HTML spec), but that 
> probably doesn't help you much.
>
>> Why as a crawler developer should I care about profiles as they are
>> not compulsory and I will need to parse the whole page anyway?
>
> Maybe they should be compulsory?
>
>> Why as a UA developer should I care about profiles as I will need to
>> parse the whole page anyway?
>
> Don't think just in terms of performance- a profile can still make 
> your life easier, as it will make things less ambiguous.
>
> -ryan
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