Re: [uf-discuss] W3HTML WG, HTML5, semantics, and so on

2007-05-13 Thread John Allsopp
Thanks Maciej, HTML5 does have new elements, some of which are mainly for semantic purposes, but it does not at present have a copyright element. my bad, no idea where I got that idea from! The current proposal does have a predefined copyright class though. That would be it then. The

Re: [uf-discuss] a[name] as machine data?

2007-05-13 Thread Toby Inkster
Better than a[name] would be a[href], assuming a relevent URI scheme exists: a href=geo:51.36,-0.05London, abbr title=United KingomUK/abbr/a (See: http://geouri.org/) Disadvantages would be: 1. Involves using a poorly supported URI scheme. People using browsers that don't support the scheme

Re: [uf-discuss] W3HTML WG, HTML5, semantics, and so on

2007-05-13 Thread Henri Sivonen
On May 11, 2007, at 3:15 PM, John Allsopp wrote: (abbr pattern problems, Clearly, there's a need for markup for the generic pattern of marking up a triple of data presented to humans, the microformat class and a normalized easy-to-parse representation of the data. HTML5 time addresses

Re: [uf-discuss] a[name] as machine data?

2007-05-13 Thread Patrick H. Lauke
Toby Inkster wrote: Better than a[name] would be a[href], assuming a relevent URI scheme exists: a href=geo:51.36,-0.05London, abbr title=United KingomUK/abbr/a (See: http://geouri.org/) Disadvantages would be: 1. Involves using a poorly supported URI scheme. People using browsers that don't

Re: [uf-discuss] hCite elevator pitch and my bibliography generator

2007-05-13 Thread Henri Sivonen
On Mar 10, 2007, at 21:46, Henri Sivonen wrote: I needed a .bib-based bibliography generator for XHTML, so I wrote one with help from a friend who had developed a .bib parser. In case others are interested, I've published the source code. There's no documentation to speak of.

Re: [uf-discuss] Fwd: Twitter Is Now Even More Geeky

2007-05-13 Thread Chris Messina
On 5/11/07, Ryan King [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On May 11, 2007, at 12:13 AM, Ben Buchanan wrote: And for the really geeky, we have a surprise: Twitter now fully supports microformats. Now that is pretty geektastic. How 'bout that! But what does that mean? Hmm, well it looks like all the

Re: [uf-discuss] Fwd: Twitter Is Now Even More Geeky

2007-05-13 Thread Kevin Marks
On May 13, 2007, at 7:49 PM, Chris Messina wrote: XFN. All of the side bars use [rel=contact]. -ryan So yeah, it's hAtom + hCard + XFN. Pretty good, especially since we haven't seen too much hAtom pickup outside of a few WordPress blogs. Also rel=me on the URL links in personal pages,

Re: [uf-discuss] Regarding POSH and misuse of the microformats logo

2007-05-13 Thread Chris Messina
On 5/7/07, Keith Alexander [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm of the opinion that Semantic HTML is a perfectly fine term for Semantic HTML, and I'm a little sceptical of the utility of a new acronym for it. If there's a problem with people still not understanding semantic html, either the arguments

Re: [uf-discuss] Regarding POSH and misuse of the microformats logo

2007-05-13 Thread Ara Pehlivanian
On 5/13/07, Chris Messina [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It isn't that the arguments aren't clear enough or loudly enough; we've had a good 4-5 years of tooting the proverbial semantic horn. The problem is that, in a lesser amount of time, microformats have totally taken off and captured people's