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09 Jun 2006
Microformats are not MicroContent
I have been waiting for someone to say this. And I am afraid that I agree. Frederick Giasson laments that microformats do not have an URI. Giasson tries to make links between specific hreviews and hcards, he wants to create a MicroWeb. And in order to do that an URI is needed. And in my definition that makes microformats not MicroContent. I listened well to Marc Canter, so I added addressability as a key characteristic of MicroContent.
However this does not matter at all. Just see MicroContent as a future and microformats as an essential intermediairy. I see microformats as a great step to introduce structure on the web. Live Clipboard adds possibility of manipulation. Once I will be able to copy an hcard and put it in my local addressbook, I will have introduced some addressability. Maybe they can add anchors to an hformat in order to add addressability. (maybe it is possible to do this, I did not yet dive into it)