We may just be seeing this differently Karl, it's topical because it's all about data formats (sure RDF can be much more). But maybe this is not the place :)
> Unrelated. I can't see why. The fundamental point is about ease of usage, not technologies. > You could compare an I agree. But a Microformat is what it is. You are unlikely to have an application of hCard creating a new standard. Hence the simplicity. I agree. Context is the key. I'm not arguing anything else. Hence why I do also like standards. > Web 2.0 is a marketing Yes I know. But the first thing non-techhies will ask it what is it really useful for and marketing it is the key. Web 2.0 seems to have worked somewhat. This could be recursive, but I do understand your viewpoint and think we are maybe talking about different aspects of the same thing. Steven http://stevenR2.com -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Karl Dubost Sent: 27 April 2006 12:26 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: 'Microformats Discuss' Subject: Re: [uf-discuss] Microformats vs XML Off List because off topic Le 06-04-27 à 20:16, Steven Livingstone a écrit : > RSS (as an example) has remained very simple ever since it was > created and > XML-RPC has also remained so along with many others. Sure, there > have been and > In contrast if you consider RDF, OWL etc - they are not > particularly easy to > get running with. There is quite a learning curve, but having used > them for Unrelated. You do not compare the same thing at all :) You could compare an application of RDF Ex: FOAF, SKOS, RSS 1.0 with an application of XML Ex: XHTML, RSS 2.0, Atom > The first paragraph of Uche Ogbuji's IBM article sums it up for me: > http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-stand2.html Put this first paragraph in the SGML community, and you will see the answers. Everything is a question of context. > It's certainly nothing specific to Microformats, but more a web 2.0 > view on > things where simplicity is being particularly effective. Web 2.0 is a marketing which became a social phenomenon. Not a technology. Microformats are good for particular things. I didn't say the opposite. They have their issues and their benefits depending on the context. -- Karl Dubost - http://www.w3.org/People/karl/ W3C Conformance Manager, QA Activity Lead QA Weblog - http://www.w3.org/QA/ *** Be Strict To Be Cool *** _______________________________________________ microformats-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss _______________________________________________ microformats-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss
