I agree, I don't think there needs to be a different term for Microformats specifically geared towards the general web user ("like my mum"). Specific names for each public-facing uF would be nice where the user would recognize hCard content as a "Smart Name" or hCal as a "Smart Date" but I don't think a new term that bundles all Microformats is warranted.
If you create a new term that is just a "slick" name for Microformats, you should be prepared to completely do away with the term "Microformats". If a majority of people are calling it "Slick Name", I don't see the need to use the term Microformats when talking among my developer buddies. I'm just going to call it "Slick Name". Just my 2 cents... -Mike -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tara Hunt Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2007 8:50 PM To: Microformats Discuss Subject: Re: [uf-discuss] microformats for normal people, like my mum 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. The one that could use a bit of massaging is XFN. FOAF, which is not a nice spec, had a more generically used acronym. 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. Personally, I'd love it all to be invisible and have more tools for non-expert content producers to input plain text into stuff that spits out properly marked up pages and other tools (like browsers and plug ins and sites) that consume these well-marked up pages properly. It should look like magic. What's that Arthur C. Clarke quote about technology and magic? T _______________________________________________ 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