[uf-discuss] Mailing list debate moved & new proposal

[Mike Schinkel]

>> microformats have always been intended to simply solve common real-world
problems in an 80/20 fashion.  This limitation is quite deliberate, and is
key to microformats being *actually* useful in the immediate/nearterm
future, as opposed to *theoretically* useful in some ideal/imaginary world
where boil the ocean (BTO) solutions have some how magically altered human
culture and society as a whole to radically change behavior and adopt them
wholesale.

There is nothing in what I'm envisioning or proposing that would make them
theoretical.  I would just like to address more areas that it appears you
want to address.

-Mike Schinkel
http://www.mikeschinkel.com/blogs/
http://www.welldesignedurls.org/



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[mailto:microformats-discuss-bounces at microformats.org] On Behalf Of Tantek Ç
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Sent: Tuesday, November 07, 2006 1:22 PM
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Subject: Re: [uf-discuss] Mailing list debate moved & new proposal

On 11/7/06 9:59 AM, "Mike Schinkel" <mikeschinkel at gmail.com> wrote:

>>> You seem to assume that we want to scale. :D However, those 
>>> solutions are against the grain of microformats.
>>> They'd no longer be simple, they'd no longer work together. There 
>>> would
> be too many of them.
> 
> Then I am getting more and more disenchanted with the whole 
> MicroFormat concept. Microformats will be nowhere nearly as useful I 
> as first assumed it to be.

To be clear Mike, microformats were never envisioned to solve all format
problems, or metaformat problems etc.  That ocean boiling is better left to
many others who are pursuing those goals.

microformats have always been intended to simply solve common real-world
problems in an 80/20 fashion.  This limitation is quite deliberate, and is
key to microformats being *actually* useful in the immediate/nearterm
future, as opposed to *theoretically* useful in some ideal/imaginary world
where boil the ocean (BTO) solutions have some how magically altered human
culture and society as a whole to radically change behavior and adopt them
wholesale.

http://microformats.org/wiki/microformats

Thanks,

Tantek

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