<div class="gmail_quote">But, if you're concerned about search-engines (and not human web-readers), I think it would be better to promote a wider usage of microformats.</div><div class="gmail_quote">Don't you?</div>
<div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 6:27 PM, Samer Ziadeh <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:samerziadeh@gmail.com">samerziadeh@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Sorry, it could be used for different use cases, for example if someone wants to search for a blog post by a certain authors. Like there are many blogs that have mutliple authors, like tutsplus for example has different authors. Let's say you wanna read some of the works of this author John Doe, you would do a search on Google for example "author:John+Doe", and Google in that case would've already implemented the convention of picking up author tags. I can see it being useful.<div class="im">
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<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 19:24, Ian Hickson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ian@hixie.ch" target="_blank">ian@hixie.ch</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left:1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;padding-left:1ex">
<div>On Thu, 3 Sep 2009, Samer Ziadeh wrote:<br>
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</div><div>> There are more useless elements in the specifications, than this one.<br>
> The 'author' tag would be used more often than 'ruby', or 'meter' and<br>
> they made it to the specs.<br>
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</div><ruby> is in because it is already supported by IE and there is enough<br>
demand from Japan to make the Chrome team add it to Chrome and Safari.<br>
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<meter> is in to prevent people from abusing <progress>.<br>
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You didn't answer the questions I asked, though:<br>
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When would you so retrieve an author?<br>
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Would you also ever need to retrieve, say, colour names? Or names of<br>
ships? Or town names? Or prices? Or mortgage rates?<br>
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