[microformats-discuss] Definition of "microformat"?

Fri Sep 16 10:38:09 PDT 2005

On Sep 16, 2005, at 9:18 AM, Dr. Ernie Prabhakar wrote:
> Hi all,
>> I can never resist a good etymological workout. :-) Here's my take:
>> Microformats are
> terse conventions
> for using existing tags
> and brief, descriptive class names
> that assign precise semantics
> for a single, well-defined problem domain
> within HTML/XHTML/XML documents
>> In short, "Microformats are terse conventions that assign precise 
> semantics."

That's very terse.... and precise.
-ryan