History of profile URIs (Was: [uf-discuss] ANN: hCard Tutorial)

[Scott Reynen]

On Dec 18, 2006, at 4:50 PM, Andy Mabbett wrote:

> This isn't in any way a criticism of your tutorial, but, further to
> recent discussion, it's worth noting that not only does the tutorial
> include no mention of a profile URI, but also that, until now, nobody
> had even thought that worthy of comment.

Searching the archives, I see a discussion of profile URIs as far  
back as July of 2005, less than a month after this list began:

http://microformats.org/discuss/mail/microformats-discuss/2005-July/ 
000149.html

So it's not a new idea.  It just hasn't gained much adoption yet.

Peace,
Scott