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28
Jun
Transparency: the good, bad and ugly
[ Web 2.0 ]
From the Radio Labs blog titled Removing Microformats from bbc.co.uk/programmes
This is has been debated to death in other quarters, but I think its great to see the radio labs guys come out and say in a non judgmental way what problems they've been having and how it conflicts with the BBC standards and guidelines. This is one of those good cluetrain moments which is difficult but so right.Unfortunately there have been a number of concerns over hCalendar's use of the abbreviation design pattern. Until these issues are resolved the BBC semantic markup standards have been updated to prevent the use of non-human-readable text in abbreviations...
Posted by at Sat, 28 Jun 2008 00:50
