[uf-discuss] Re: Microformats are being discussed on Slashdot

[Chris Messina]

This stuff always makes me smile.

;)

On 7/11/06, David Janes -- BlogMatrix <davidjanes at blogmatrix.com> wrote:
> Microformats are being discussed on Slashdot [1] in regards to an IBM
> Developer Works article [2]. To editorialize briefly, the comments are
> about the level of quality you'd expect on /. for the last couple of years:
>
>  >> On the other hand, this is kindof like the PDF format, with text as
> text.
>  >> So, you're mixing HTML with a tag. Again, SO WHAT?
>  >> I'm sure the LISP community would love to hear about this brand-new idea
>  >> So now why is this "vevent" class special, and who decided it would
> be "vevent" and not "scheduledevent" or "calendarevent" or
> "microsoftcalendarhassomethingforyoutodotoday"?
>  >> completly unnecessary and nothing more than an ugly hack?
>
> Regards, etc...
>
> [1] http://tinyurl.com/eg5tp
> [2] http://tinyurl.com/eebnr
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