[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #14746: Post Formats

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#14746: Post Formats
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 Reporter:  ryan            |       Owner:                             
     Type:  task (blessed)  |      Status:  new                        
 Priority:  normal          |   Milestone:  3.1                        
Component:  Template        |     Version:                             
 Severity:  normal          |    Keywords:  ongoing-project ui-feedback
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Comment(by mikeschinkel):

 Replying to [comment:121 SmallPotato]:
 > i see your point. however, it seems neither of the two examples
 referenced are applicable. (correct me if i'm wrong. i might be confused.)

 Embracing constraints is a general principle as such I wasn't providing an
 exact matching use-case but instead highlighting other discussions of the
 principle.

 Look at the WordPress API, for example. We can't change it and the core
 team changes it slowly and carefully. That's a good thing otherwise we'd
 have a moving target to hit.

 Look at HTML. Does v4.0.1 have everything we want? Not by a long shot, but
 the fact that it was a stable target and made it possible for people to
 build many wonderful things with it.  If HTML had been designed to allow
 extensible markup like XML; do you think we've have seen the uptake we
 did? Highly unlikely because there would have been so little common
 ground.

 OTOH, let me make another '''proposal''' that might make everyone happy?
 Stand on the shoulders of giants and use the same approach as the
 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_media_type Internet Media Types].
 The ''standard'' Post Formats will be named as-is and Custom Post Format
 could get prefixed with ''"`x-`"''.

 Then over time the core team could survey somehow to figure out what the
 commonly needed new Post Formats are and add those into the next version
 of WordPress.  They could even add functionality that would automate the
 use of "x-" as a prefix for all custom post formats.

 It worked for Content Types on the web, why not WordPress Post Formats
 too?

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