Aaron Parecki

aha that explains the confusion then. The wiki pages clearly need updating because there are a *lot* more consumers than that.

That said, I totally agree that specs without implementations are dangerous. I didn't bother adding Microformats to my website until there was a clear consuming use case for the additional markup. But that was like 7+ years ago now.

I still don't understand where this "without a consumer" is coming from, there are plenty of consumers of those, including the app I am typing this reply from.

That’s tricky. hCard (Microformats 1) was/is indexed by Google. The Webmention spec (published in 2017) was published after years of implementations working in the wild. Before Webmention existed, h-card/h-entry was used with Pingback to send comments back and forth.

Wait were you referring to schema.org vocabs in your comment about pushing specs that don’t have implementations? Because yeah I agree completely on that front.