http://simonwillison.net/2009-02-05T22:46:36+00:00Simon Willison2009-02-05T22:46:36+00:002009-02-05T22:46:36+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2009/Feb/5/microformats/#atom-tag

<blockquote cite="http://getluky.net/2009/01/08/a-warning-about-the-real-cost-of-microformats/"><p>Much like an oral agreement, publishing microformats is an informal agreement between you and (hopefully) a developer community that sets up a relationship with plenty of vagueness, inertial resistance to change, and potential landmines to step on. Would you create a real developer API without a TOS, agreement, or at the very least, guidelines? [...] are you prepared to announce all frontend markup changes? Does publishing a microformat without a special agreement mean that you are implicitly allowing comprehensive scraping of your web data?</p></blockquote> <p class="cite">&mdash; <a href="http://getluky.net/2009/01/08/a-warning-about-the-real-cost-of-microformats/">Gordon Luk</a></p> <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/apis">apis</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/gordonluk">gordonluk</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/microformats">microformats</a></p>