criticism

Criticism

From time to time, there is criticism of a single, or all, microformats. Some is constructive, other less so.

The following list makes no judgement either way, but is included for reference, and in order that microformat advocates who wish to do so, may participate in the original discussion,.

If you choose to do so, please adopt a positive helpful manner, and act as an ambassador for the microformat community.

Unless stated, titles and dates are taken from original postings, verbatim.

(please add new items to the top of the list, and replicate the format of those already there)

• RDFa vs microformats - 2006-05-29. Issues: lack of co-ordination & compatibility.
• Use of 'abbr' in microformats - 2006-09-20. Issues: use of 'abbr'; Julian dates
• Must Ignore vs. Microformats - 2006-07-12. Issues: "XML would be better"

See also

• accessibility
• microformats-issues
• The microformats FAQ, which answers many general criticisms/ issues that have been raised with microformats.