[uf-discuss] Major change to microformat specs without prior discussion or notification

[Scott Reynen]

On Feb 7, 2008, at 11:08 AM, Manu Sporny wrote:

>  It invalidates the need for "mfo" in hcard, doesn't it?
> If it were applied to the rest of Microformats, it would invalidate  
> the
> need for "mfo" entirely.


Not exactly.  As <hober> said in IRC:

# [02:17:12] <hober> just to quickly clarify, the opacity parsing rule  
applies to microformat X with regards to nested instances of X
# [02:17:34] <hober> (as opposed to nested instances of any, even  
future, microformat)

That "nested instances of any, even future, microformat" is what MFO  
[1] would cover, but probably never will because piecemeal solutions  
like this eliminate the various problems MFO would solve all at once.

On the topic of whether this should have had wider discussion, I  
thought it was well established long ago that the properties of an  
AGENT hCard are not inherited by the container hCard, so I don't see  
anything really changing here.  Was anyone publishing agent hCards and  
expecting the properties to also apply to the container?  That seems  
very counter-intuitive to me.

[1] http://microformats.org/wiki/mfo

Peace,
Scott