[uf-rest] Fwd: [microformats-discuss] REX! Re: REST-discuss list, naming

[toydi]

Hi Ernie,

The reason I mentioned about the two approaches, is mainly because I
see the strength of microformats: "humans first, machines second".

There're some applications that do not require their representations
to be human-readable, in other words, they do not intend to use
(X)HTML render engine to view their representations.

Rather, they use representations just to exchange data and store data
in repository. There will be soon some B2B applications that try to
use REST in their machine-to-machine communications. That's why I
mentioned about the first approach: REST+ XML.

OTOH, microformats is really convenient for humans. The way we as
humans, viewing web pages, updating web pages, microformats is a
perfect solution to improve our every-day user experience. That's why
I mentioned about the second approach: REST + microformats, where
humans are involved.

I just read your AHAH in the wiki, and I think these things are going
to change the way humans manipulate contents in Web. That's why I
mentioned about on-fly authoring: where humans able to update contents
while reading a web page.

The point I was trying to express in my previous message is,
microformats has its powerful strength to improve human's user
experience with Web. And it's something I'm looking forward to see
REST+microformats moving towards such direction. :-)

Cheers,
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-toydi-