Lukewarm response to hproduct

Lately I have been hot on the Microformat trend, and have an opening to push hProduct into our product listing and product detail pages, which number in the 300,000+ pages. I believe it could serve as a great example of what the format COULD be, given the correct implementation.

I have posted out a couple times to [uF-new] around the progress we’re making with the new hProduct schema, and am also attempting to solicit feedback from the community. Much to my dismay, I have only received one response (albeit a positive one — thanks Hayes). It’s a bit discouraging to see multi-threaded emails around theoretical formats that in my opinion (I’m biased here) may not have as much of an impact as hProduct. Imagine the kinds of things one could do with an accepted hProduct standard — the partnership between retailers, manufacturers and the end consumer has implications that would heavily impact the e-commerce industry, potentially changing the way consumers find data and shop both online and in the store.

At the risk of bucking the process, my plan is to move ahead and provide real world examples (300,000+ examples!) of hProduct in production, let the jury decide whether this is a worthwhile pursuit, and iterate off of the findings.

Onward.