[microformats-discuss] Developer Adoption

[Tantek Çelik]

Carl is precisely correct.

Tantek

On Jul 14, 2005, at 11:17 AM, Carl Beeth 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. If it is a link to a iCal
> file the only thing he can do is hand it over to the OS.
>
> Remember that you already have the human readable html version and
> only have to make tiny changes to make that one machine readable.
>
>> it should be up to developers to deliver the
>> content to them in tools they already have.
> I agree but it is not a question of either or, you can offer both.
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