Re: microformats for normal people, like my mum

On 6/27/07, Tara Hunt <taracitizenagency.com>
wrote:
>> Although I heart the idea of language for
non-experts, I'm wondering
>> how public facing Microformats, as a general term,
is.
>>
>> I've thought about this before...I can see the
specific microformats,
>> like hCard and hCal and hReview being public
facing...and, in reality,
>> these are pretty descriptive. Maybe they just need
some sort of iconic
>> marker (like RSS has)...which I think has been
attempted before.
I agree with Tara here. Microformats is interesting for
developers 
because it tells us in what way the solution works but for
my mum it 
would tell nothing. My mom knows however what an address is
and what a 
calendar is and because of that it's the microformats in
itself that 
should be given common names like "web feeds" for
RSS. I don't know but 
have XML been given a humane name yet? Because XML is to RSS
what 
Microformats is to hCard.

If Microformats should be given a more humane name then that
would be 
something about semantics. Semanticdata perhaps - but it
wouldn't make 
anyone happier I think because the only ones who would be
interested 
would be those who already knows what Microformats is.
>> As far as talking about Microformats under one
banner, I don't know if
>> the distinction really needs to be made. i think
that may be what POSH
>> was trying to say: use plain old semantic
html...but even that is
>> talking to developers and advanced content
producers.
I agree wth Tara here also.
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