[uf-discuss] human readable date parsing

[James Craig]

On May 4, 2007, at 8:24 AM, Tantek Çelik wrote:

> On 5/4/07 8:19 AM, "James Craig" <jcraig at apple.com> wrote:
>
>> I almost completely disagree with this. If people are actually
>> *using* Microformats as intended, there will be plenty of times when
>> the machine data will pass in front of the user (in their calendar
>> program for example)
>
> No the "in their calendar program" is totally insufficient because  
> it is
> nearly completely detached from the other representation of the  
> data.  In a
> separate window etc. etc.  People don't tend to switch between two  
> windows
> to check to see if the info was the same.

I also mentioned Tails which displays the data in the same window.

James