Comments on: October WSG Meetup: Microformats

By: Stuart Colville

Stuart Colville — Thu, 05 Oct 2006 08:58:33 +0000

@David: Hi David the details should be online later today. Thanks for being patient!

By: David Singleton

David Singleton — Thu, 05 Oct 2006 08:30:42 +0000

Still looking forward to this, any idea when we’ll get the details nailed down?

By: Bradley Wright

Bradley Wright — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 07:57:34 +0000

@ Buck: There’s another key difference–the other Microformats event seems to be a social gathering, whereas Stuart’s event is a proper standards meet up. I feel there’s a very distinct difference in the tone.

By: Buck Rogers

Buck Rogers — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 22:43:30 +0000

That’s one way of looking at it. Another is that it’s dividing what could be one great event into two inadvertantly watered-down events.

“Hey Fred, are you going to this Microfotmats event?”

“Nah, I’m going to the other Microformats event”

By: Stuart Colville

Stuart Colville — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 21:48:11 +0000

@Buck: Surely the more events relating to microformats the better?

By: Buck Rogers

Buck Rogers — Sun, 17 Sep 2006 14:30:41 +0000

Why are you doing this? Wouldn’t it be more sensible to get behind the London Microformats event, which is just a few weeks before this one?

By: Richard Conyard

Richard Conyard — Fri, 25 Aug 2006 07:17:52 +0000

I’d love to see some discussion in the area of Microformats for computers and the parsing of Microformats.

Looking forward to October already

By: Tantek

Tantek — Sun, 20 Aug 2006 09:21:17 +0000

All,

I very much encourage you to raise questions and issues (like recurring events, applications, etc.) on the microformats-discuss mailing list so that some things can be quickly answered (e.g. applications, see http://microformats.org/wiki/implementations ) and others at least somewhat discussed so that a richer in-person discussion is possible.

http://microformats.org/discuss/

Robert, as far as that “Current issues with Microformats” post, most of those have been disposed of with the microformats.org FAQ and other discussions. E.g. namespaces themselves are actually more of a problem and this has been well documented on the microformats.org wiki. The poster also misses the whole point of DRY, the need to prefer visible data to invisible metadata, etc. Putting data in class attributes (as is suggested for dates) has also been refuted as a bad idea (see invisible metadata critiques). If you feel any of those issues actually merit/require any further discussion, please post them individually to the microformats-discuss mailing list.

Thanks,

Tantek

By: Robert Nyman

Robert Nyman — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 21:02:13 +0000

At our Geek Meet in Stockholm in June we had a talk about Microformats. You can find a good write-up in Current issues with Microformats. Maybe a good point to start a discussion?

By: Stuart Colville

Stuart Colville — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 16:15:12 +0000

@Trovster: Understandable that you’d choose not to travel 3 hours on a weekday. Hopefully you will get something together that’ll cater for developers who live north of london. Oh and what do you mean “might be a cool WSG meeting”