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From: Jukka K. Korpela
Date: Feb 19, 2007 8:30AM

On Mon, 19 Feb 2007, Tim Beadle wrote:

> Microbabble? Could we lay off the pejorative language, please?

No, because ridiculing is one way of propagating the idea that
microformats are a wrong idea, similar to emperor's new clothes.

> Perhaps you would like to actually find out a little more about
> Microformats before declaring that they are of no practical use?

No, because it is the moral responsibility of proponents of the
microformats idea to demonstrate its practical usefulness, if they can. In
particular, if microformats are suggested as a means of improving
accessibility, the proof of their usefulness should demonstrate how they
actually help disabled users. So far, only _negative_ effects (such as
confusing people with nonsensical title attributes) have been described.

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Jukka "Yucca" Korpela, http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/