[uf-discuss] hCalendar spec- no specification included!

Justin Thorp juth at loc.gov
Wed Oct 18 05:31:29 PDT 2006


I really like this idea.  What if the landing page for the microformat wasn't the spec but it was some warm and fuzzy intro for newbies?  It could then link to the spec for those that were interested to it.

A good example of this would be the W3C WAI's intro for WCAG that they give you before you get sent right into WCAG 1.0.
http://www.w3.org/WAI/intro/wcag 

I would expect that a lot of newbies start off hearing about microformats on tutorials like:
http://www.digital-web.com/articles/microformats_primer/
http://www.thinkvitamin.com/features/design/how-to-use-microformats 

Or from presentations like:
http://tantek.com/presentations/2006/09/microformats-practices/

They get linked to the spec and then get offly confused.

-justin thorp

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>>> andy at pigsonthewing.org.uk 10/17/06 3:39 PM >>>
In message
<8ad71be30610161404q2e9e9df0l10bd008032dcc182 at mail.gmail.com>, Benjamin
West <bewest at gmail.com> writes

>Regarding the specs bit, I meant to refer to the various stages of the
>process.  The spec landing page might contain the big questions, with
>a status section pointing to pages dedicated toward how the spec is
>moving through the process, and with the "learn more" section pointed
>at the spec itself.

If the "spec itself" is on a secondary page, then the "landing" page
isn't the spec.

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