>> I'm not a retailer, but if I was, I'm sure I wouldn't consider the prospect of a 20% failure rate very satisfactory...
I didn't imply that at all. Explicitly stated, I was saying that edge cases would be in the 20 percentile, not that we'd have a 20% failure rate. Further, I said I believe that it would be much more likely to see adoption if the 80 percentile case were much easier to implement. It is easier to get people to learn and adopt complexity if they can get started by not having to learn and use complexity. Once bought in to a concept, assuming the complexity slope is not to steep, people will incremetally accept complexity. But they won't accept complexity up front. It is a concept I learned from one of my college professors called "transitionality." I blogged about it a few years ago: http://www.mikeschinkel.com/blog/DevelopmentToolsNeedTransitionality.aspx We can look look back at OS/2 and Windows; in the early days one was optimized for quality and one was optimized for adoption. Look which one won. >> That said, why not make the "symbol" markup optional? That's IMO is an additional good idea. -Mike -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andy Mabbett Sent: Saturday, October 14, 2006 4:22 PM To: Microformats Discuss Subject: Re: [uf-discuss] Currency Quickpoll: Preliminary results In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Mike Schinkel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes >>> £1 was worth 2.50 dollars > >Those are edge cases which require additional complexity. I'm >advocating that edge cases, which are certainly in the 20 percentile or >less have the complexity whereas the more common use-cases (certainly >more than 80 percentile) should require less complex markup. > >Most of the time we see just $2.50 or just £1. My point is "Why require >all the overhead (which will likely cause this microformat not to get >used very often) in order to support far less common use-cases with the >same markup?" > >>From my experience of running a small internet retailer for 12 years I'm not a retailer, but if I was, I'm sure I wouldn't consider the prospect of a 20% failure rate very satisfactory... That said, why not make the "symbol" markup optional? -- Andy Mabbett Say "NO!" to compulsory ID Cards: <http://www.no2id.net/> Free Our Data: <http://www.freeourdata.org.uk> _______________________________________________ microformats-discuss mailing list microformats-discuss@microformats.org http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss _______________________________________________ microformats-discuss mailing list microformats-discuss@microformats.org http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss