#microformats 2018-04-07

2018-04-07 UTC
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@simonjgray
↩️ Didn't realise Tantek 'yeah I realised early on that microformats were a dead end so why are other people still banging on about them 10 years later?' Celik was one of the originators.
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@kevinmarks
↩️ Microformats are still going well 15 years later. What was your alternative at the time?
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@simonjgray
↩️ Microformats were a classic example of skiptech - other, easier, ways of achieving the same ends emerged before they achieved mass penetration beyond niche users. But the alternative at the time was the X in XHTML, which also never achieved mass penetration.
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@TINBizCompNews
Using Microformats (O'Reilly Media, Inc./O'Reilly Network) http://dlvr.it/QNmnDl
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@pstuifzand
I have been building the next few features of the microsub server. It now can fetch (and perhaps) subscribe to feeds in other types then microformats. Now it also subscribes to RSS, Atom and JSON feed. https://p83.nl/p/494
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