In message <C13C51DE.7BB37%tantek cs.stanford.edu>, Tantek
Çelik
<tantekcs.stanford.edu> writes
>> I came here some months ago, lurked, posted a few
minor
>> comments and lots of questions; marked up some test
microformats, asked
>> for feedback, applied fixes, iterated, marked-up a
quantity of real
>> data,
>
>Cool. Just to be sure - did you add the pages you
marked up to the
>"Examples in the Wild" sections of the
respective specifications?
Yes (I've not done so for the (relatively recent) hAtom
pages, yet,
because I want to do further work and testing on it, first).
>I'm thinking were we to adopt this modification to the
process that
>that (adding links to examples in the wild to the wiki)
would be the
>concrete measurable aspect of this requirement.
It would measure that the page has microformats, it would
not measure
that they were put there by the person claiming so.
>> proposed two simple replications/ adaptations of an
existing
>> format, and ONLY THEN proposed the format
("species"), the desire for
>> which had first led me to look for something like
microformats in the
>> first place.
>
>Excellent.
>
>Did you find it to be useful/educational to go through
the process of
>marking up and publishing real data with existing
microformats?
Of course.
>> That said, you can't stop someone from saying
"Hey, I think we need a
>> microformat for X"; doubly so in a supposedly
*open* standards
>> community.
>
>Of course not, but we can help steer people towards
being more
>effective with their microformat ideas and proposals,
which is a
>primary goal of the process.
Then simply *suggest* that people use microformats before
proposing
them, as part of the "process".
--
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