Re: [uf-discuss] Persons, Groups, Resources

2006-10-26 Thread Chris Messina
Hi Lorenzo, There has already been some work done on groups... and I'd caution against suggesting such far-reaching changes off the bat to a core microformat. It's a sure way to give yourself away! ;) http://microformats.org/discuss/mail/microformats-discuss/2006-February/003192.html

RE: [uf-discuss] Visible Data...a Microformat requirement?

2006-10-26 Thread Mike Schinkel
Your always welcome to use HTML class name semantics or other microformat-inspired technologies in your private applications. However, that is a different thing that calling it a microformat and engaging this whole group in vetting and supporting it. If you think this could be a great solution

RE: [uf-discuss] Visible Data...a Microformat requirement?

2006-10-26 Thread Mike Schinkel
Scott: I'm still not convinced. I've only heard generalities and no specifics on anything I've heard regarding my use-case. RDF is far to complicated for the average person creating HTML; one reason why I don't think it will ever fly. I still know of nothing else besides Microformats that can

Re: [uf-discuss] Visible Data...a Microformat requirement?

2006-10-26 Thread Ciaran McNulty
On 10/26/06, Mike Schinkel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks. That maybe solves this use case. Can you do the same using link in the head in case you don't want the hyperlink visible? Or what about on a div within body? And do you know if the search engines pay any attention to this?

Re: [uf-discuss] Persons, Groups, Resources

2006-10-26 Thread Lorenzo De Tomasi
A question about compatibility... The code: li class=vcard personspan class=fn nTantek Çelik/span/li is compatible with the standard code: li class=vcardspan class=fn nTantek Çelik/span/li? On 10/26/06, Chris Messina [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Lorenzo, There has already been some work done

Re: [uf-discuss] Persons, Groups, Resources

2006-10-26 Thread Ciaran McNulty
On 10/26/06, Lorenzo De Tomasi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The code: li class=vcard personspan class=fn nTantek Çelik/span/li is compatible with the standard code: li class=vcardspan class=fn nTantek Çelik/span/li? Yes that's correct, an hCard parser will ignore any classes it's not aware of[1],

Re: [uf-discuss] Visible Data...a Microformat requirement?

2006-10-26 Thread Andy Mabbett
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Ciaran McNulty [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes @rel=bookmark I've seen several people refer to such things with an opening @ - what does it mean? -- Andy Mabbett Say NO! to compulsory ID Cards: http://www.no2id.net/ Free Our Data:

Re: [uf-discuss] Visible Data...a Microformat requirement?

2006-10-26 Thread Andy Mabbett
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Dr. Ernie Prabhakar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes As long as you don't call it a microformat, feel free to experiment. :-) Why shouldn't he call it a microformat? -- Andy Mabbett Say NO! to compulsory ID Cards: http://www.no2id.net/

Re: [uf-discuss] Visible Data...a Microformat requirement?

2006-10-26 Thread Colin Barrett
On Oct 26, 2006, at 7:25 AM, Andy Mabbett wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Ciaran McNulty [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes @rel=bookmark I've seen several people refer to such things with an opening @ - what does it mean? I'm not sure on the etymology, but they're referring to attributes

Re: [uf-discuss] Visible Data...a Microformat requirement?

2006-10-26 Thread Colin Barrett
On Oct 26, 2006, at 7:28 AM, Andy Mabbett wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Dr. Ernie Prabhakar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes As long as you don't call it a microformat, feel free to experiment. :-) Why shouldn't he call it a microformat? Because it hasn't gone through the (fairly

Re: [uf-discuss] rel- uFs : still draft after all this time?

2006-10-26 Thread Andy Mabbett
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Andy Mabbett [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes The 'wiki' page on rel-enclosure: http://microformats.org/wiki/rel-enclosure say that its spec (sic) is a draft, as of 2005-06-21 Is that still the case and, if so, has nothing changed in over a year? [and so on]

Re: [uf-discuss] Visible Data...a Microformat requirement?

2006-10-26 Thread Scott Reynen
On Oct 26, 2006, at 3:07 AM, Mike Schinkel wrote: I'm still not convinced. I've only heard generalities and no specifics on anything I've heard regarding my use-case. RDF is far to complicated for the average person creating HTML; one reason why I don't think it will ever fly. I still

Re: [uf-discuss] Visible Data...a Microformat requirement?

2006-10-26 Thread Ben Ward
On 26 Oct 2006, at 18:35, Colin Barrett wrote: On Oct 26, 2006, at 7:25 AM, Andy Mabbett wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Ciaran McNulty [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes @rel=bookmark I've seen several people refer to such things with an opening @ - what does it mean? I'm not sure on the

[uf-discuss] include-pattern support for data outside of the current page? [Was: Visible Data...a Microformat requirement?]

2006-10-26 Thread Guillaume Lebleu
The thread around invisble microformats reminded me of this example from the visible Web. Maybe relevant to this discussion, if not relevant to the include-pattern. An index page (http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/international/oilprice.html) contains currency information that applies to all pages

Re: [uf-discuss] rel- uFs : still draft after all this time?

2006-10-26 Thread David Janes
The process of what moves something from draft to specification is a little bit of a mystery to most of us, I think... Regards, etc... David On 10/26/06, Andy Mabbett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Andy Mabbett [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes The 'wiki' page on rel-enclosure:

Re: [uf-discuss] rel- uFs : still draft after all this time?

2006-10-26 Thread Charles Iliya Krempeaux
Hello Andy, Does the status of them really matter? The specifications are there... and people can read them... and use them if they choose to. IMO... it would be better for these Microformats to become widely used before making these specifications hard in stone. Perhaps there's some problems

Re: [uf-discuss] rel- uFs : still draft after all this time?

2006-10-26 Thread Andy Mabbett
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Charles Iliya Krempeaux [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Does the status of them really matter? Yes. Many people - and especially organisations - will be wary of applying something which is described in such as way as to imply the likelihood that it will change before

[uf-discuss] Visible data and key+value pairs

2006-10-26 Thread Kevin Marks
I had a discussion about this in Shelley Powers' blog comments a while back: http://just.shelleypowers.com/technology/ajax-myth-busting/#comment638 what I said then was: What is data and what is metadata depends on the content and the context. If you have a series of key/value pairs where

[uf-discuss] how do i submit something for consideration?

2006-10-26 Thread Jonathan Vanasco
Hi. I've recently soft-launched a distributed identity webapp that I've split out of another project, and released several aspects of that application as open standards ( Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 2.5 License ) I don't know how / where to submit it for potential

Re: [uf-discuss] rel- uFs : still draft after all this time?

2006-10-26 Thread Andy Mabbett
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Andy Mabbett [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Does the status of them really matter? Yes. Many people - and especially organisations - will be wary of applying something which is described in such as way as to imply the likelihood that it will change before being widely

Re: [uf-discuss] include-pattern support for data outside of the current page? [Was: Visible Data...a Microformat requirement?]

2006-10-26 Thread Tantek Çelik
On 10/26/06 11:22 AM, Guillaume Lebleu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: include-pattern support for data outside of the current page? Guillaume, My apologies for not clarifying this on the include-pattern page - I could have swore I had done so, and it was one of these core aspects of its design that

Re: [uf-discuss] Visible data and key+value pairs

2006-10-26 Thread David Janes
What do you think of using rel-enclosure to point source data -- for example, an HTML table that's source created from a CVS, XLS, or SQL/JSON data source that's URI addressable? Regards, etc... On 10/26/06, Kevin Marks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I had a discussion about this in Shelley Powers'

Re: [uf-discuss] how do i submit something for consideration?

2006-10-26 Thread Frances Berriman
Hi Jonathan, On 10/26/06, Jonathan Vanasco [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi. I've recently soft-launched a distributed identity webapp that I've split out of another project, and released several aspects of that application as open standards ( Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 2.5

Re: [uf-discuss] how do i submit something for consideration?

2006-10-26 Thread Charles Iliya Krempeaux
Hello Jonathan, (This does NOT have anything to do with the Microformats aspect of it, but) Just out of curiousity, why the No Derivative part for the license for the specification? (To be open wouldn't anybody need to be able to make derivatives, and not just one person or more group of

Re: [uf-discuss] [admin] mailing list policies reminder

2006-10-26 Thread Andy Mabbett
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Andy Mabbett [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Here're some suggested additions: I set that the page http://microformats.org/mailinglists-policies/ has recently been updated, and some of the suggestions posted here included, but not others. What's the reasoning behind

Re: [uf-discuss] [admin] mailing list policies reminder

2006-10-26 Thread Andy Mabbett
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Andy Mabbett [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes I set that I see that - apologies for my typing! -- Andy Mabbett Say NO! to compulsory ID Cards: http://www.no2id.net/ Free Our Data: http://www.freeourdata.org.uk

Re: [uf-discuss] Visible Data...a Microformat requirement?

2006-10-26 Thread Colin Barrett
On Oct 26, 2006, at 8:04 AM, Ben Ward wrote: On 26 Oct 2006, at 18:35, Colin Barrett wrote: On Oct 26, 2006, at 7:25 AM, Andy Mabbett wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Ciaran McNulty [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes @rel=bookmark I've seen several people refer to such things with an opening @

Re: [uf-discuss] Visible Data...a Microformat requirement?

2006-10-26 Thread Ben Ward
On 27 Oct 2006, at 00:58, Colin Barrett wrote: @ represents an attribute, so @rel=tag means @rel tag with the value ‘tag’. The most advanced I've seen it get in general discussion is of the form [EMAIL PROTECTED], which means ‘element named foo with an attribute bar with value ‘sheep’.