GWGI have a microformats storage problem. I currently store just a URL in properties like in-reply-to and metadata on the URL in a key called cite. snarfed made me think about moving from a string to an array for things like in-reply-to, but what do I do with the metadata?
tantekso much nicer to get pages faster than some designer's sense of an important detail. so few pages actually benefit in any appreciable way from the marginal improvement
tantekcaching it is an optimization of sorts, not having to continuously re-retrieve that information from the web every time you want to display it on your site
tantekyou can also treat that cache as a snapshot (archive) of that parsed microformat information from that URL as of the time you retrieve it which is likely close to when you posted your response about / in-reply-to it
tantekthen you can later decide how important (or not) is it for you to keep that original snapshot vs. allowing it to disappear / be reretrieved / or updated later
GWGThat is going to be difficult to change though. But I'll think about how I might move it out of post meta and where it might go. Or I may just keep storing it in Post Meta and figure out a different key for it.
tantekBTW that "potentially" is one of the problems I've been thinking about needing/wanting to solve as part of supporting any degree of parsing other people's stuff (including supporting receiving / displaying webmentions)