(Doh, I lost this one in my queue, hence its tardiness)<\/p>\n\n
It’s too bad his comments are gone, because this “response” to\nhis piece on microformats<\/a>\ndoesn’t exactly warrant a separate blog entry. But here it is\nanyway.<\/p>\n\n Regarding extensibility, I think the “middle name” issue Dave has\nis really with the\nvCard format<\/a>,\nfrom whence hCard inherits its\ndescriptive semantics (i.e. vCard has no concept of “middle name”,\nonly “additional names” – hCard has support for this via the *-Name\nclasses, though I admit it’s underspecified). IMO, the microformat approach in general,\nhas a very good extensibility story; extension classes are ignored, while\nextended content is ignored by automata, but rendered to humans. Plus\nthere’s also a nice hack for cases where machine-processability gets in\nthe way of human-friendliness; “display: none” in CSS.<\/p>\n\n In fact, thinking about it some more now, I think the bulk of the\ninnovation in (and coolness of) microformats is exactly<\/em> that it\nworks within the constraints of existing extensibility points in\na pervasively deployed format. Anybody can invent a\nnew format<\/a>,\nbut it takes genius to\nreuse an existing one<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n Tags:\nmicroformats<\/a>,\nhtml<\/a>,\ncss<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(Doh, I lost this one in my queue, hence its tardiness) It’s too bad his comments are gone, because this “response” to his piece on microformats doesn’t exactly warrant a separate blog entry. But here it is anyway. Regarding extensibility, I think the “middle name” issue Dave has is really with the vCard format, from […]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[40],"class_list":["post-1345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-xml"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1345\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}