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["Eran Sandler" <eran AT yedda.com>]

Getting an "approval" (not that one is needed) from the microformats
community might actually enable companies like Yahoo to actually consider
using it. 
After all, they do use other microformats.

All in all, I think that would be a relatively good move. Microid.org has
most of the text and information that can be rearrange to fit into a
microformat spec. Don't you think?

Eran


-----Original Message-----
From: microid-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org
[mailto:microid-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Peter Saint-Andre
Sent: Tuesday, November 28, 2006 6:22 PM
To: microid AT lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: Re: [Microid] MicroID.org and Microformats.org

Evan, are you on all the same lists I'm on? :-)

Evan Prodromou wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-28-11 at 08:54 -0700, Peter Saint-Andre wrote:
> 
>> Fred and I have been talking about writing up the microid spec for a few
>> months now but we're both so busy that we haven't gotten to it yet. :(
>> Another issue is that microid is not quite like the other microformats
>> out there, but I think that would be OK with the microformats folks.
> 
> I think that it goes against the core philosophy of microformats.org --
> that semantic information should also be human-readable. It's not an
> idea I share, but it's something they hold onto pretty tenaciously.

This is true.

> Frankly, I don't think that microformats.org has much to offer MicroID.
> At the end of the day, after whatever hoops uF's makes you jump through,
> you've got exactly 0 more microids published in the world. Any energy
> that went into getting it adopted by microformats.org would be far
> better spent getting it adopted by Myspace, Friendster, Wikipedia,
> Yahoo, dot dot dot.

You're probably right.

But would it help to write up a slightly more formal spec so that
developers can grok the concept?

Peter