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2007-02-08 Thread Ryan King
On Feb 7, 2007, at 2:56 PM, David Janes wrote: On 2/7/07, Ryan King [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Feb 7, 2007, at 12:50 PM, David Janes wrote: On 2/7/07, Ryan King [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes there are several problems: 1. XFN applies to whole pages. This means that you can't reliably put

Re: Vote on this: rel=me self to indicate an authoritative hCard {was: Re: [uf-discuss] Authoritative hCards [was RE: Canonical hCards (was: Search on CSS element)]}

2007-02-08 Thread David Janes
On 2/8/07, Ryan King [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nothing special is needed at /blog/contact/. -ryan But that's the authoritative hCard. What's the algorithm (or heuristic) that I follow if I'm a parser looking at the blog at microformats.org, see your partial hCard and try to find your

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2007-02-08 Thread David Janes
On 2/8/07, Ben Ward [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8 Feb 2007, at 19:02, David Janes wrote: On 2/8/07, Ryan King [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nothing special is needed at /blog/contact/. -ryan But that's the authoritative hCard. […] Sorry if this sounds pedantic, I'm not trying to be.

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2007-02-08 Thread Ryan King
On Feb 8, 2007, at 11:02 AM, David Janes wrote: On 2/8/07, Ryan King [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nothing special is needed at /blog/contact/. But that's the authoritative hCard. What's the algorithm (or heuristic) that I follow if I'm a parser looking at the blog at microformats.org, see your

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2007-02-08 Thread Ryan King
On Feb 8, 2007, at 12:00 PM, David Janes wrote: On 2/8/07, Ben Ward [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8 Feb 2007, at 19:02, David Janes wrote: On 2/8/07, Ryan King [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nothing special is needed at /blog/contact/. -ryan But that's the authoritative hCard. […] Sorry if

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2007-02-07 Thread Ryan King
Sorry, I'm way behind on this thread. I wish I weren't but there's nothing I can do about that now... On Jan 29, 2007, at 5:50 PM, John Allsopp wrote: Ben, For my money, John Allsopp's idea to reuse rel=bookmark self [1] makes most sense. As well as being gorgeously consistent with

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2007-02-07 Thread Ryan King
On Jan 30, 2007, at 2:28 PM, John Allsopp wrote: Chris, (all the following simply thoughts in the spirit of brainstorming, rather than any particular argument in favour of my original suggestion) I pretty much came up with a very similar proposal for handling this issue, though from the

Re: Vote on this: rel=me self to indicate an authoritative hCard {was: Re: [uf-discuss] Authoritative hCards [was RE: Canonical hCards (was: Search on CSS element)]}

2007-02-07 Thread Ryan King
On Jan 30, 2007, at 4:06 PM, Ben Ward wrote: Chris Messina: div class=vcard id=vcard addressa href=http://factoryjoe.com/blog/hcard/#hcard; class=fn url rel=me selfChris Messina/a/address div class=orgCitizen Agency/a ... /div John Allsopp: The definition of the self attribute value

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2007-02-07 Thread David Janes
On 2/7/07, Ryan King [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes there are several problems: 1. XFN applies to whole pages. This means that you can't reliably put different people's hCards on the same page and do this. 2. We have prior art that is being ignored. Publishers are already using a class=url uid

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2007-02-07 Thread Ryan King
On Feb 7, 2007, at 12:50 PM, David Janes wrote: On 2/7/07, Ryan King [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes there are several problems: 1. XFN applies to whole pages. This means that you can't reliably put different people's hCards on the same page and do this. 2. We have prior art that is being

Re: Vote on this: rel=me self to indicate an authoritative hCard {was: Re: [uf-discuss] Authoritative hCards [was RE: Canonical hCards (was: Search on CSS element)]}

2007-02-07 Thread David Janes
On 2/7/07, Ryan King [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Feb 7, 2007, at 12:50 PM, David Janes wrote: On 2/7/07, Ryan King [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes there are several problems: 1. XFN applies to whole pages. This means that you can't reliably put different people's hCards on the same page and

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2007-02-01 Thread Andy Mabbett
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], John Allsopp [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes When rel-license is inside an hReview, it is taken to be associated with the review, rather than the larger fragment it would otherwise be associated with (e.g. post or page) I wonder whether that makes sense more generally -

Re: Vote on this: rel=me self to indicate an authoritative hCard {was: Re: [uf-discuss] Authoritative hCards [was RE: Canonical hCards (was: Search on CSS element)]}

2007-01-31 Thread Frances Berriman
On 31/01/07, Ben Ward [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Chris Messina: div class=vcard id=vcard addressa href=http://factoryjoe.com/blog/hcard/#hcard; class=fn url rel=me selfChris Messina/a/address div class=orgCitizen Agency/a ... /div John Allsopp: The definition of the self attribute

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2007-01-31 Thread Colin Barrett
On Jan 31, 2007, at 3:46 AM, Frances Berriman wrote: On 31/01/07, Ben Ward [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Chris Messina: div class=vcard id=vcard addressa href=http://factoryjoe.com/blog/hcard/#hcard; class=fn url rel=me selfChris Messina/a/address div class=orgCitizen Agency/a ... /div

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2007-01-31 Thread Ben Ward
On 31 Jan 2007, at 12:08, Colin Barrett wrote: Can I get a clearer idea of what exactly is people are +1-ing? I +1 @rel=self me, but am not willing to give my vote yet on using address, as it's not entirely clear if we're talking about mandating it, recommending it, etc. FWIW I'm not

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2007-01-31 Thread Colin Barrett
On Jan 31, 2007, at 4:34 AM, Ben Ward wrote: On 31 Jan 2007, at 12:08, Colin Barrett wrote: Can I get a clearer idea of what exactly is people are +1-ing? I +1 @rel=self me, but am not willing to give my vote yet on using address, as it's not entirely clear if we're talking about

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2007-01-31 Thread Ara Pehlivanian
+1 On 1/31/07, Colin Barrett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jan 31, 2007, at 4:34 AM, Ben Ward wrote: On 31 Jan 2007, at 12:08, Colin Barrett wrote: Can I get a clearer idea of what exactly is people are +1-ing? I +1 @rel=self me, but am not willing to give my vote yet on using address, as

Re: Vote on this: rel=me self to indicate an authoritative hCard {was: Re: [uf-discuss] Authoritative hCards [was RE: Canonical hCards (was: Search on CSS element)]}

2007-01-31 Thread David Janes
On 1/31/07, Ben Ward [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We are voting only on the use of @rel=me self to reference an authoritative hCard that parsers should follow. e.g. div class=vcard a class=fn url href=http://ben-ward.co.uk/about; rel=me selfBen Ward/a /div Just to be 100% pedantically clear:

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2007-01-31 Thread Ryan Cannon
On Jan 31, 2007, at 9:49 AM, Ara Pehlivanian wrote: Just to stir the pot a little, and maybe it's a good idea to consider authenticity in the whole discussion of authoritative cards. What guarantees that when someone creates an hCard and puts rel=me self that they are giving the correct URL and

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2007-01-31 Thread Ara Pehlivanian
On 1/31/07, Ryan Cannon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm getting into this late, but isn't the entire concept behind rel=me? rel=me links *must* be symmetric in order to create a distributed verification system?. It's definition is A link to yourself at a different URL[1]. According to the spec,

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2007-01-31 Thread Ben Ward
On 31 Jan 2007, at 16:15, Ryan Cannon wrote: It's definition is A link to yourself at a different URL[1]. Correct. Which is still valid in the rel=me self case. According to the spec, rel=self me is invalid *unless* you do not include the XFN profile on your Web site. Sorry, I've got

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2007-01-31 Thread Ara Pehlivanian
On 1/31/07, Ben Ward [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 31 Jan 2007, at 16:15, Ryan Cannon wrote: It's definition is A link to yourself at a different URL[1]. Correct. Which is still valid in the rel=me self case. According to the spec, rel=self me is invalid *unless* you do not include the XFN

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2007-01-31 Thread Ben Ward
On 31 Jan 2007, at 17:24, Ara Pehlivanian wrote: Ben, Don't you think he has a point though? If you think of it, rel=me could suffice in that it refers to yourself at another URL (in line with the idea of an authoritative hCard) and once you get there and read that hCard and discover that it

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2007-01-31 Thread Benjamin West
I'm trying to catch up, but I'm finding it a bit difficult. The problem with rel=me is that it's merely an alternative version, and not authoritative or canonical, right? Why is rel=me self desirable though? Were there any other alternatives considered? Thanks, Ben West On 1/31/07, David

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2007-01-31 Thread Ara Pehlivanian
On 1/31/07, Ben Ward [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The authoratitive hcard will also contain @rel=me. Firstly, to fulfil XFN it must link back to the linking resource and as a full hCard it will still contain URLs with @rel=me pointing to the other sites I own. Hang on, linking /back/ to the

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2007-01-31 Thread Ryan Cannon
On Jan 31, 2007, at 12:15 PM, Ben Ward wrote: According to the spec, rel=self me is invalid *unless* you do not include the XFN profile on your Web site. Sorry, I've got muddled here. According to which spec? Are you referring to the “Exclusive of all other XFN values” part of the @rel=me spec

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2007-01-31 Thread Colin Barrett
On Jan 31, 2007, at 9:47 AM, Ben Ward wrote: My understanding therefore, is that @rel=me indicates that it is the same person. @rel=self indicates that it is the same hcard. Therefore the absolute authoritative hcard we speak of may (I expect will) contain other links with @rel=me but will

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2007-01-31 Thread digital spaghetti
Just chiming in my two pence here: Rather than something like @rel=me self, would a better idea not be to look at including some kind of way of authenticating the source such as a MicroID hash? This has already been discussed on the MicroId list along the lines of this: @rel=me

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2007-01-31 Thread Benjamin West
There is quite a lot of interest in this topic. With all the voices, it's becoming quite difficult to keep track of what we're talking about, and who thinks what. I've added this issue to the hcard-issues page. http://microformats.org/wiki/hcard-issues#Canonical.2FAuthoritative_Hcard I would

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2007-01-30 Thread Chris Messina
Well, I certainly am coming to the party late. I actually started a post on this topic over a week ago -- and absentmindedly hadn't checked on this list first before posting and therefore published without the benefit of this discussion (I can hear Tantek chiding me) but nonetheless, as the

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2007-01-30 Thread John Allsopp
Chris, (all the following simply thoughts in the spirit of brainstorming, rather than any particular argument in favour of my original suggestion) I pretty much came up with a very similar proposal for handling this issue, though from the standpoint of XFN-links, and I think that John's

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2007-01-30 Thread Ben Ward
Chris Messina: div class=vcard id=vcard addressa href=http://factoryjoe.com/blog/hcard/#hcard; class=fn url rel=me selfChris Messina/a/address div class=orgCitizen Agency/a ... /div John Allsopp: The definition of the self attribute value in Atom is self: the feed itself. The term the

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2007-01-30 Thread Steve Ivy
+1 from me. On 1/30/07, Ben Ward [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Chris Messina: div class=vcard id=vcard addressa href=http://factoryjoe.com/blog/hcard/#hcard; class=fn url rel=me selfChris Messina/a/address div class=orgCitizen Agency/a ... /div John Allsopp: The definition of the self

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2007-01-29 Thread Ben Ward
On 24 Jan 2007, at 14:51, Ara Pehlivanian wrote: Just a shot in the dark here, but couldn't the a class=url ... be assumed to be pointing to the hCard owner's site where it could be further assumed that the authoritative hCard would reside? What's more, if the href in the a class=url...

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2007-01-29 Thread John Allsopp
Ben, For my money, John Allsopp's idea to reuse rel=bookmark self [1] makes most sense. As well as being gorgeously consistent with other existing microformats, it's also a completely graceful addition to existing hCards. thanks ;-) There's a lot of goodness to reuse from other ufs, for

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2007-01-24 Thread Scott Reynen
On Jan 23, 2007, at 8:46 PM, Joe Andrieu wrote: Tantek Ç elik wrote None of those examples given are actually canonical sources, they're merely citations and quotations of sources (for which we have existing HTML semantics for: cite q cite blockquote cite. The semantic of canonicality is not

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2007-01-24 Thread Ara Pehlivanian
My concern about this is that many publishers (myself included) try to avoid linking a page to itself due to usability concerns, e.g. I just clicked on that link and didn't go anywhere. This site is broken. Just a shot in the dark here, but couldn't the a class=url ... be assumed to be

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2007-01-24 Thread Andy Mabbett
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Joe Andrieu [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes A few two major things happen when you do this: 1. You enable an hCard author to semantically declare this hCard as definitive 2. You could provide a link from a refering hCard to the authoritative hCard for discovery of