#microformats 2020-12-24
2020-12-24 UTC
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@GentlyLurk ↩️ Keep in mind I was with computers before API's became mainstream, when some sites gave you no alternative to scraping their often poorly coded HTML to try to discern meaning. Even HTML needs a framework like microformats atop to make that unambiguous. (twitter.com/_/status/1342074491896295429)
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@heydonworks ↩️ The person said JSON is machine readable and HTML isn't. But it is. That's it, really. (twitter.com/_/status/1342076122633302016)
# @GentlyLurk ↩️ People making XML / JSON alt representations are, from the stats I've seen winning the battle that they are more appropriate than HTML.
People like @t and @microformats are making the case for additional convention, to reduce duplication and need for alternative representations. (twitter.com/_/status/1342075166214467584)
# @GentlyLurk ↩️ Then again, I was once trapped into a conversation I couldn't politely leave by someone who was worried their machine would "require the cloud"... YMMV (twitter.com/_/status/1342077488260853760)
# @GentlyLurk ↩️ I think you're hung up on their potential poor choice of words. I'd encourage you not to be. There are far more fluent, natural effective communicators than fumbling, well-meaning people. (twitter.com/_/status/1342077304093224961)
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@kevinmarks ↩️ A key thing to do if you're adding microformats to your templates is to add an integration test that parses them and checks that they are still there, so when you redesign you don't delete the 'unused classes' - Mastodon has this, and it works. (twitter.com/_/status/1342103493616824322)
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@tuzgai ↩️ it's weird that you demand the people talking to you assume good intent of someone whose post you havent seen while you refuse to believe that they read the post correctly (twitter.com/_/status/1342104883915325442)
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# @heydonworks ↩️ He said HTML isn't machine readable, which means he doesn't know what he's talking about. That's all you need to know. I'm not sure why you are explaining the finer points of JSON etc to me. (twitter.com/_/status/1342125021217615872)
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@thisguymartin ↩️ Get a hobby and chill. You are way to trigger for some nonsense (twitter.com/_/status/1342139039256727552)
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