[microformats-discuss] Re: Educationg Others

[Dr. Ernie Prabhakar]

Hi Scott,

On Oct 4, 2005, at 3:30 PM, Scott Anderson wrote:
> It is true that I don't understand the zen of microformats. I am
> simply applying my experience as to how interface designers and
> content providers would want to adopt this technology in attempt to
> understand what type of tools they might need.

Yeah, I get the feeling you work with a very different community of  
people than most of us on this list.   The sort of questions we ask are:

* How can I represent the structured data on my computer (addresse  
book, calendar entries, outlines, presentations) as a web page, that:
	a) can be styled using CSS
	b) allows the semantic structure to be easily extracted
	c) makes best use of existing XHTML conventions

I suspect that may be part of the disconnect: we are primarily  
focused on *personal* data, not *enterprise* data.

If you could care less about address book vCards, but want instead to  
represent more abstract or generic datatypes, then microformats (at  
least in its current incarnation) probably isn't for you.

Best,
-- Ernie P.

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