[uf-discuss] Microformats and RDFa not as far apart as previously thought

2008-06-24 Thread Manu Sporny
There have been some interesting blog posts by people at the BBC, Mozilla and W3C about Microformats and RDFa in the past two days. The first covers BBC's decision to drop support for the abbr-based design pattern written by Michael Smethurst (who worked with this community on hAudio among other

Re: [uf-discuss] Microformats and RDFa not as far apart as previously thought

2008-06-24 Thread Frances Berriman
On 24/06/2008, Manu Sporny [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey Manu, Thanks for the links. I'm trying to keep track of all the converastions popping up around this. Some are moving too quickly to dismiss both Microformats AND RDFa - the two communities are cross-pollinating and there has been

[uf-discuss] RE: Microformats and RDFa not as far apart as previously thought

2008-06-24 Thread Belov, Charles
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Re: [uf-discuss] RE: Microformats and RDFa not as far apart as previously thought

2008-06-24 Thread Guillaume Lebleu
Belov, Charles wrote: I feel it is unreasonable to ask a non-technical person to produce ISO-format dates/times, so microformats do not produce an acceptable solution at this time for marking up meeting announcements. I agree that only an editor extension would make writing ISO-format

[uf-discuss] RE: Microformats and RDFa not as far apart as previously thought

2008-06-24 Thread Toby A Inkster
Guillaume Lebleu wrote: span class=dstart lang=en-usOctober 5, 2004/span Cognition already supports this as a last ditch attempt at parsing dates - but I wouldn't recommend it get adopted widely. It's too unreliable; too much work to deal with internationalisation; too much work

Re: [uf-discuss] RE: Microformats and RDFa not as far apart as previously thought

2008-06-24 Thread Guillaume Lebleu
Toby A Inkster wrote: Guillaume Lebleu wrote: span class=dstart lang=en-usOctober 5, 2004/span Cognition already supports this as a last ditch attempt at parsing dates - Thank you for the attempt. but I wouldn't recommend it get adopted widely. It's too unreliable; Why is this that