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Re: http://www.techwinter.com/2006/07/13/xoxo-vs-opml-criticism/

Stephen Paul Weber — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 21:35:42 -0000

As manager of the XOXO blog, I would like to make a few things clear:

1) I am not officially connected to microformats.org
2) I suck at design, but, at user request, have redesigned my blog three times. If you have any design ideas that make sense I'd be more than happy to try again.
3) Most of the XOXO information available is geeky because it is a geeky subject. When I first looked up OPML I couldn't even figure out what it was, because of geekiness. Same went with XOXO. Once I saw both of them at work in a feedreader, however, I was hooked.

For something on this, see http://blogxoxo.blogspot.com/2006/05/what-is-reading-list.html

(apologies if you still can't stand my design!)

Re: Microformats are Web 2.0 virus

Stephen Paul Weber — Tue, 22 May 2007 15:47:22 -0000

Everyone would prefer an XML-based system, but we don't HAVE that yet. Inserting random XML tags into an XHTML document is not only invalid, but it messes up EVERY browser out there.

Microformats achieve the same thing, do not break the way (X)HTML is supposed to work, use what is defined in (X)HTML for semantics, and are backward-compatible to quirksmode

Perhaps microformats are only a stepping-stone, but they are a good one

Re: Microformats are Web 2.0 virus

Stephen Paul Weber — Wed, 30 May 2007 14:19:39 -0000

Yes, they do, because they're used to handling bad and invalid HTML from the old days. We're supposed to be trying to move away from that, not make it worse by inventing new and on-purpose-wrong tags!