Comments on: The Microformats vEvent that wasn’t http://www.broken-links.com/2008/05/28/the-microformats-vevent-that-wasnt/ Thoughts on web development and technologies by Peter Gasston Sun, 07 Mar 2010 16:33:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Peter http://www.broken-links.com/2008/05/28/the-microformats-vevent-that-wasnt/comment-page-1/#comment-12834 Peter Fri, 30 May 2008 17:08:22 +0000 http://www.broken-links.com/?p=168#comment-12834 @Laurian; Nice to meet you on Tuesday. Yes, I think I got that from the talks, and I agree with it; but it was really an RDFa Event, which I found annoying. @John: I'm looking forward to it. @Laurian; Nice to meet you on Tuesday. Yes, I think I got that from the talks, and I agree with it; but it was really an RDFa Event, which I found annoying.

@John: I’m looking forward to it.

]]> By: john Allsopp http://www.broken-links.com/2008/05/28/the-microformats-vevent-that-wasnt/comment-page-1/#comment-12759 john Allsopp Wed, 28 May 2008 22:23:59 +0000 http://www.broken-links.com/?p=168#comment-12759 At least I hope you enjoy my book! Hopefully it will hit the spot for both your and your wife's needs john At least I hope you enjoy my book! Hopefully it will hit the spot for both your and your wife’s needs

john

]]> By: Laurian Gridinoc http://www.broken-links.com/2008/05/28/the-microformats-vevent-that-wasnt/comment-page-1/#comment-12757 Laurian Gridinoc Wed, 28 May 2008 16:56:37 +0000 http://www.broken-links.com/?p=168#comment-12757 I agree that it was targeted wrongly, that's why I asked if <a href="http://dannyayers.com/2007/10/29/non-xslt-grddl?appendLang=en" rel="nofollow">it is possible</a> to do <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/grddl-primer/" rel="nofollow">GRDDL</a> without <a href="http://www.w3schools.com/xsl/" rel="nofollow">XSL</a>, as I know that XSL is very counter-intuitive and definitively not productive. The message that Tom tried to get through (but it was obscured by the example code) was that microformats are great, but you can do more, more not in the sense of RDF, SPARQL or other things; but in the idea that <em>there is a mechanism by which you can state the relationships between the pieces of data you expose by microformats.</em> Well, why you should do *this* more? Well, because maybe the browser in the future will be more clever and show this, or infer some important things from this; and also because <a>Yahoo! is tapping into this</a> kind of semantics to empower their search results. I agree that it was targeted wrongly, that’s why I asked if it is possible to do GRDDL without XSL, as I know that XSL is very counter-intuitive and definitively not productive.

The message that Tom tried to get through (but it was obscured by the example code) was that microformats are great, but you can do more, more not in the sense of RDF, SPARQL or other things; but in the idea that there is a mechanism by which you can state the relationships between the pieces of data you expose by microformats.

Well, why you should do *this* more? Well, because maybe the browser in the future will be more clever and show this, or infer some important things from this; and also because Yahoo! is tapping into this kind of semantics to empower their search results.

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