URI profiles [was RE: [uf-discuss] Comments from IBM/Lotusrepabout Microformats]

[Andy Mabbett]

In message <007f01c720f7$7aa78b80$2102fea9 at Guides.local>, Mike Schinkel
<mikeschinkel at gmail.com> writes

>> Without meaning to sound flippant, they should convince their
>> tool providers to support microformats. It would take some
>> effort, but blogs or CMSs or whatever can either provide
>> access to the HEAD tag or some mechanism for specifying which
>> microformats are in use and adding the required profiles into
>> the HEAD tag itself.
>
>That position doesn't reflect reality; it's akin to Rumsfled saying the
>war was going well. It's what he wanted, but it wasn't true.

Furthermore:

        Depends on head element. This summary format may depend on the
        author having access to the head element which in many (most?)
        web authoring/ publishing scenarios the content author has no
        access.

        <http://microformats.org/wiki/page-summary-formats#Issues_2>

People can't have it both ways.

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Andy Mabbett
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