[uf-discuss] Places for best practices discussion

[Ryan King]

On Oct 28, 2005, at 8:27 AM, Dimitri Glazkov wrote:
> Everybody,
>
> Can anybody recommend a good place to discuss best practices for
> semantic HTML use? For instance, I am working on some
> markup-generating code, and it would be nice to bounce implementation
> thoughts/concepts off of smart people.
>
> This is definitely the "smart people" list, but such discussion would
> probably be off-topic. Any suggestions?

Actually, this list is an acceptable place for this. Here's why:

You'll probably notice in our http://microformats.org/wiki/process  
that we advocate developing microformats only when semantic xhtml  
constructs and compounds fail to capture the semantics. So, the  
process of developing any microformat necessitates discussing  
semantic xhtml.

Also, IMHO, microformats are an outgrowth of the movement towards  
semantic xhtml usage on the web. So, discussion of microformats just  
doesn't make sense outside of the context of semantic xhtml.

So, feel free to ask questions about semantic xhtml, because those  
questions need to be asked before we can talk about microformats.

-ryan

PS- I've also got a series of blog posts lined up to cover general  
semantic xhtml stuff, [http://www.microformats.org/blog/2005/10/19/ 
more-than-styling/] being the first of this series.
--
Ryan King
ryan at technorati.com