Re: [uf-discuss] Currency microformat

2006-07-19 Thread Scott Reynen
On Jul 19, 2006, at 8:32 AM, Ben Buchanan wrote: So, the problem we're trying to solve is how to have pages *define* the currency of the prices presented. Implication and guesses are too open for error, with high potential consequences. Okay, that looks to me more like a simple, clear

Re: [uf-discuss] Currency microformat

2006-07-19 Thread Scott Reynen
On Jul 19, 2006, at 3:35 PM, Andy Mabbett wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Scott Reynen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Then Consider providing multiple translations of one price in different amounts... How does considering this help us define the currency of the prices presented? It looks

Re: [uf-discuss] Currency microformat

2006-07-19 Thread Scott Reynen
On Jul 19, 2006, at 6:05 PM, Michael Leikam wrote: I wasn't aware that we had collectively settled on a problem definition or had moved on to solving anything. If I've missed the cutoff, please consider my comments and suggestions as late brainstorming. I for one am interested in how to

Re: [uf-discuss] solidifying multiple hatom feed behavior

2006-07-25 Thread Scott Reynen
On Jul 25, 2006, at 7:14 PM, Chris Casciano wrote: If I'm understanding your reading of the spec someone could be subscribing to the blog posts via page.html and have things work as expected until post-003 is made and it hijacks the blog feed That's my reading also. And when that happens,

Re: [uf-discuss] solidifying multiple hatom feed behavior

2006-07-26 Thread Scott Reynen
On Jul 26, 2006, at 7:59 AM, Chris Casciano wrote: I can think of two offhand... - first is an example feed when talking about mfs... which i admit coud be rare - something like my versionhistory mini-feeds[1][2], though I've used them on non-blog pages, might be a more common scenario for

Re: [uf-discuss] Exploratory discussion: content rating

2006-07-27 Thread Scott Reynen
On Jul 27, 2006, at 8:23 AM, Drew McLellan wrote: All content published on the web is unrated (in terms of nudity, violence, profanity etc) by default. There is currently no *simple* method for authors to express a rating for their content so that visitors may choose to filter on their

Re: [uf-discuss] Re: Exploratory discussion: content rating

2006-07-27 Thread Scott Reynen
On Jul 27, 2006, at 11:33 AM, Drew McLellan wrote: On 27 Jul 2006, at 16:53, Scott Reynen wrote: It would also be useful to follow the process, which requires someone to go around to sites full of NSFW content and document the markup. I believe the only volunteers to do this last time

Re: [uf-discuss] relatinal modeling in microformats?

2006-08-02 Thread Scott Reynen
On Aug 2, 2006, at 7:38 AM, Bruce D'Arcus wrote: And what if I am writing a weblog post about a particular presentation, and want to make clear that that event is part of a conference? I want to say I saw Jane Doe give talk entitled X, Y, Z at the ABC Conference. How would I do that using

Re: [uf-discuss] relatinal modeling in microformats?

2006-08-02 Thread Scott Reynen
On Aug 2, 2006, at 9:26 AM, Bruce D'Arcus wrote: I didn't really have any particular expectations associated with the question, but if it's not modelled, then of course those possibilities are more limited. Not all even data ought to be specific to calendar applications. Sure, but we're not

Re: [uf-discuss] relational modeling in microformats?

2006-08-02 Thread Scott Reynen
On Aug 2, 2006, at 10:45 AM, Andrew Turner wrote: I think this probably ties in with the transit discussion as well. It is possible to put the location in an hCalendar via a geo or adr. Then there would be an event for all of the stations on a train's route. Linking these hCalendars together to

[uf-discuss] Complicated hfeed/vcard/vevent

2006-08-08 Thread Scott Reynen
I'm working on a site for a clinic, and they do regular seminars, so I thought I'd markup the seminars with hcalendar. And then I thought it might be useful to have feed of the seminars, so I added hatom too. And between those two and the hcard markup for the vevent organizer, who is

Re: [uf-discuss] hCard Phone/Fax issue

2006-08-08 Thread Scott Reynen
On Aug 8, 2006, at 8:39 PM, Rob Maurizi wrote: http://www.uvm.edu/ctl/?Page=contact/index.php When I attempt to run the url through the technorati vCard generator, I get mungled Phone Fax data. What do you mean by mungled? The resulting vCard looks fine to me. The only potential

Re: [uf-discuss] Media Metadata, Specifically Video Thumbnails

2006-08-16 Thread Scott Reynen
On Aug 16, 2006, at 4:46 PM, Steve Williams wrote: At 02:34 PM 8/16/2006, Charles Iliya Krempeaux wrote: It has been suggested that using class-thumbnail on the img element would work for making thumbnails. I was hoping that'd be the answer. Nice and simple. Would it be considered bad form

Re: [uf-discuss] Google Base API

2006-08-24 Thread Scott Reynen
On Aug 24, 2006, at 12:27 PM, Chris Messina wrote: However, microformats seem a whole lot easier and a lower barrier to entry in many respects (though they'd have to get involved in the community process which may be too slow for them). At the very least, supporting both microformats and their

Re: [uf-discuss] Pingerati

2006-08-29 Thread Scott Reynen
On Aug 29, 2006, at 6:19 AM, Paul Kinlan wrote: Has anybody had any luck getting technorati to send pingerati pings to a service. I have asked to get hCard Requests to my web-site so that I can do some analysis but I have had no response for over a week about the progress of my request. I

Re: [uf-discuss] OpenSearch

2006-08-30 Thread Scott Reynen
On Aug 29, 2006, at 11:28 PM, David Janes wrote: (2) one could add an extra field to the OpenSearch XML (a description file about how your results are returned) indicating that the file is hAtom There are two problems here, and I think we should avoid approaching both at once. Just as a

Re: [uf-discuss] hJob

2006-08-30 Thread Scott Reynen
On Aug 30, 2006, at 8:21 AM, Don Park wrote: Given recent moves in the job listing by bloggers, I think 'hJob' and syndication of job data might be a nice near-term topic for discussion. Thoughts? Links to alternate proposals? http://microformats.org/wiki/job-listing-examples

Re: [uf-discuss] hJob

2006-08-30 Thread Scott Reynen
On Aug 30, 2006, at 10:33 AM, Chris Messina wrote: Just as I can post my own hResume, being able to post jobs descriptions that I think I'd be good at is an equally important design goal for this mF. I also think that it's design, perhaps a slight break with convention, should creatively tackle

Re: [uf-discuss] OpenSearch

2006-08-30 Thread Scott Reynen
On Aug 30, 2006, at 10:43 AM, Ted Drake wrote: This is a sample product result from the search result page. Where would the OpenSearch/hAtom microformats be added? For the results section, you'd just be adding hAtom to the results, which someone more involved with hAtom would probably

Re: [uf-discuss] Parsing dates in preferred format

2006-09-19 Thread Scott Reynen
On Sep 19, 2006, at 3:52 PM, Andy Mabbett wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Ryan King [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes In the meantime, and as a test case, surely that could be done now, with a FireFox extension or GreaseMonkey script? (The former would be preferable from my PoV) Go for it! :)

Re: [uf-discuss] 'currency' microformat straw-man proposal.

2006-09-20 Thread Scott Reynen
On Sep 20, 2006, at 11:25 AM, Andy Mabbett wrote: I have, therefore, put up a straw-man proposal, at: http://microformats.org/wiki/currency- brainstorming#Straw_man_proposal Please feel free to critique it, and, in particular, highlight any examples for which it does not cater. Nesting

Re: [uf-discuss] 'currency' microformat straw-man proposal.

2006-09-20 Thread Scott Reynen
On Sep 20, 2006, at 4:18 PM, Andy Mabbett wrote: abbr class=currency title=USD span class=amount42.67/span /abbr Isn't this suggesting that 42.67 is an abbreviation for USD? I've commented before that microformats already misuse abbr in this way. Where is that? I don't remember

Re: [uf-discuss] 'currency' microformat straw-man proposal.

2006-09-20 Thread Scott Reynen
On Sep 20, 2006, at 6:59 PM, Andy Mabbett wrote: No. You're not in a position to stipulate requirements (much less required prerequisites (sic)) of me, and your insinuations of bias are unfounded. We all have bias. I'm interested in a currency microformat because I work on several

Re: [uf-discuss] Parsing dates in preferred format

2006-09-20 Thread Scott Reynen
On Sep 20, 2006, at 6:33 PM, Andy Mabbett wrote: I prefer the original, and I suspect this is more the norm than the exception. [1] http://www.westmidlandbirdclub.com/diary/2006-09.htm Interesting - that's one of my pages. Can you suggest a better way to mark-up the event? No, I think

Re: [uf-discuss] 'currency' microformat straw-man proposal.

2006-09-21 Thread Scott Reynen
On Sep 21, 2006, at 1:26 PM, Charles Iliya Krempeaux wrote: Yes, I agree that we should be using ISO 4127 codes. (I guess my original argumement has gotten lost in the blast of e-mails.) What I'm arguing is that... we should throw an iso4127 class name in there too so that other currency

Re: [uf-discuss] 'currency' microformat straw-man proposal.

2006-09-21 Thread Scott Reynen
On Sep 21, 2006, at 9:32 PM, Stephen Paul Weber wrote: Parsers like only having one format to work with. Let people display what they will, the machine-readable should be consolidated. I agree. Publishers also like having only one format to work with. Peace, Scott

Re: [uf-discuss] 'currency' microformat straw-man proposal.

2006-09-22 Thread Scott Reynen
On Sep 22, 2006, at 1:54 PM, Charles Iliya Krempeaux wrote: For currencies... We could specify one standard currency -- ISO 4127 3 letter codes -- for now (which would make these people happy). But also think to the future about if people change out minds (and don't want to use ISO 4127

Re: [uf-discuss] Proposal: species

2006-09-22 Thread Scott Reynen
On Sep 22, 2006, at 12:55 PM, Ryan King wrote: On Sep 21, 2006, at 5:25 PM, Andy Mabbett wrote: Shall I take everyone's silence as complete agreement? ;-) No. :-P Andy, if you're eager to move these discussions forward more quickly, you might find it helpful to move some of them to the

Re: [uf-discuss] Proposal: species

2006-09-22 Thread Scott Reynen
On Sep 22, 2006, at 2:24 PM, Andy Mabbett wrote: On Sep 21, 2006, at 5:25 PM, Andy Mabbett wrote: Shall I take everyone's silence as complete agreement? ;-) No. :-P So, are you going to tell us which bit(s) you disagree with, or is it a secret? Neither. It's something we haven't all

Re: [uf-discuss] Proposal: species

2006-09-22 Thread Scott Reynen
On Sep 22, 2006, at 3:29 PM, Andy Mabbett wrote: If you get bored waiting, you could fill in a species-formats page, which comes before brainstorming in the process. Are you sure about that? I'm sure this is what the process page says:

Re: [uf-discuss] Proposal: species

2006-09-22 Thread Scott Reynen
On Sep 22, 2006, at 5:23 PM, Andy Mabbett wrote: If you get bored waiting, you could fill in a species-formats page, which comes before brainstorming in the process. Are you sure about that? I'm sure this is what the process page says:

Re: [uf-discuss] Use of abbr (also object) and Accessibility

2006-09-22 Thread Scott Reynen
On Sep 22, 2006, at 5:28 PM, Andy Mabbett wrote: Typical use of dates (not times) in prose omit the year, Nonsense. Hardly. Few people use a year when giving a date that is close to the current date. Who said anything about close to the current date? Most events on the web lack are

Re: [uf-discuss] Proposal: species

2006-09-23 Thread Scott Reynen
On Sep 23, 2006, at 9:37 AM, Andy Mabbett wrote: People use the vernacular AND taxonomic names of species in everyday speech and writing - just read or watch any populist gardening magazine or television programme. We're only concerned with examples on the web. The *-examples page is

[uf-discuss] Dated currency examples?

2006-09-24 Thread Scott Reynen
In the currency-brainstorming [1] page, I see a few straw man proposals with dated currency. But I don't see anything in currency- examples [2] with dated currency. I think I understand the general idea, that currencies change value over time, but in what currently published HTML would

Re: [uf-discuss] Dated currency examples?

2006-09-24 Thread Scott Reynen
On Sep 24, 2006, at 2:19 PM, Andy Mabbett wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Scott Reynen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes In the currency-brainstorming [1] page, I see a few straw man proposals with dated currency. No you don't; you see two real, albeit simplified for clarity, examples [3

Re: [uf-discuss] [citation]: Brian's outstanding issues 1: UID

2006-09-25 Thread Scott Reynen
On Sep 25, 2006, at 4:58 PM, Michael McCracken wrote: I like Brian's suggestion to use a type class to denote what type of UID it is while avoiding a huge list of new class names. span class=uidspan class=typeDOI/span: a class=value href=http://dx.doi.org/stuff;.../a/span It seems like this

Re: [uf-discuss] [citation]: Brian's outstanding issues 2:

2006-09-25 Thread Scott Reynen
On Sep 25, 2006, at 7:35 PM, Michael McCracken wrote: I know what you mean - the type matters in how you format the reference, but it isn't usually displayed. This is something we'll have to hammer out. Right now it looks like a tradeoff between flexibility and elegance, but I'm hoping for a

[uf-discuss] Wiki editing issues

2006-09-26 Thread Scott Reynen
I was trying to edit the Issues section of the naming-principles page: http://microformats.org/wiki/naming-principles#Issues First I clicked what I thought was the appropriate [edit] link, where I was told I needed to login. After logging in, I was offered a link back to the Main Page.

Re: [uf-discuss] Dated currency examples?

2006-09-27 Thread Scott Reynen
On Sep 27, 2006, at 2:21 PM, Guillaume Lebleu wrote: span class=pricespan class=currencyamountabbr class=unitcurrency title=USD$/abbr25/span a abbr class=unit title=barrelbarrel/abbr/span. As suggested in the currency Related microformats section, I think a simpler money microformat

Currency+Product (Was: [uf-discuss] Dated currency examples?)

2006-09-29 Thread Scott Reynen
On Sep 29, 2006, at 2:56 AM, Lorenzo De Tomasi wrote: A proposal can be: p class=price abbr class=unit money title=USD per barrel$/barrel/abbr span class=value10,5/span /p I have not yet studied Related microformats (I'll do it), but, if I have understood the example, another proposal can be:

Re: [uf-discuss] Re: Currency + Unit of measurement (Was: Currency+Product)

2006-10-01 Thread Scott Reynen
On Sep 29, 2006, at 5:09 PM, Guillaume Lebleu wrote: I don't think Lorenzo is talking of: *currency amount per item/ product* as your title and example imply (that, I agree, is a non- starter) but of *currency amount per unit of measurement* (which is widely used - see for instance:

Re: [uf-discuss] Process to handle decentralized creation of new microformats?

2006-10-01 Thread Scott Reynen
On Oct 1, 2006, at 9:44 AM, Costello, Roger L. wrote: What happens when creating microformats becomes decentralized; that is, when communities go off and create their own new microformats? I'd guess what happens is it doesn't work. By analogy, what happens when communities go off and

Re: [uf-discuss] Marking Up Personal Profiles

2006-10-02 Thread Scott Reynen
On Oct 2, 2006, at 2:07 PM, Andy Mabbett wrote: I have had a really hard time finding currency examples on the Web using something else/more than the price class name to qualify currency amounts How much data was marked up with dtstart, fn or entry-content as a class name, before

Re: [uf-discuss] Re: Currency + Unit of measurement (Was: Currency+Product)

2006-10-03 Thread Scott Reynen
On Oct 3, 2006, at 4:16 AM, Ciaran McNulty wrote: I think it's fairly clear that $ is a unit of currency, 'barrel' is a measure of volume, and $/barrel is a measure of currency/volume in its own right, similar to other composite measures like m.p.h. Sure we can conceptualize it like that, but

Re: [uf-discuss] hAlias vs hCard

2006-10-03 Thread Scott Reynen
On Oct 3, 2006, at 11:04 AM, Lachlan Hunt wrote: The motivation to have and offer one's alias is to maintain a greater level of privacy. Suppose I want to give someone a way to contact me without divulging all my vital (more permanent and personal) attributes. Sort of a disposable email,

Re: [uf-discuss] Re: Currency + Unit of measurement (Was: Currency+Product)

2006-10-03 Thread Scott Reynen
On Oct 3, 2006, at 2:17 PM, Guillaume Lebleu wrote: Here are some additional examples from the Web of currency mixed with measures, some of which differ from the $__ per barrel pattern and a suggested new conceptualization that seems to work with them.

Re: [uf-discuss] Microformats in Form Fields

2006-10-04 Thread Scott Reynen
On Oct 4, 2006, at 12:18 PM, Stephen Paul Weber wrote: One thing about this would be that all current parsers would have to be tweaked to ignore form as the root of a data-extraction parseing. I don't think it's quite that simple. What about cases where microformats exist within forms, but

Re: [uf-discuss] Using Technorati to export hCal to Outlook 2003

2006-10-04 Thread Scott Reynen
On Oct 4, 2006, at 2:50 PM, Jeremy Flint wrote: Ok, uploaded an updated page with the hCal information in it. There are definitely dtstart, dtstamp, and dtend fields in there now. Those don't appear to be coming into the output from feeds.technorati. Here is what Tails is seeing:

Re: [uf-discuss] Microformats in Form Fields

2006-10-05 Thread Scott Reynen
On Oct 5, 2006, at 5:17 AM, Ciaran McNulty wrote: I agree with this. I think indicating that a form contains an hCard is semantically valid in and of itself, especially in the case of presenting an hCard in a form for editing. There's also nothing immediately wrong with saying that an empty

Phone number links (Was: [uf-discuss] Potential accessibility spin-off from hCard)

2006-10-09 Thread Scott Reynen
On Oct 8, 2006, at 3:37 PM, Bob Jonkman wrote: Phone numbers have a URI identifier of tel [1], useful for protocol handlers that understand VOIP or faxes. eg: span class=vcardspan class=fnBob Jonkman/span, a class=tel href=tel:+1-416-555- 1212+1-416-555-1212/a/span FYI, Skype is

Re: [uf-discuss] Microformats in Form Fields

2006-10-09 Thread Scott Reynen
On Oct 5, 2006, at 9:20 AM, Ciaran McNulty wrote: I'd prefer to say that an hCard with missing elements *is* an hCard, it's just invalid. It's like saying that a web page that's missing its head is invalid, rather than saying it's not HTML. Yeah, after thinking about it more, I don't really

Re: [uf-discuss] uf-dev ( was Idea: beginners/getting started list)

2006-10-11 Thread Scott Reynen
On Oct 11, 2006, at 12:51 PM, Ryan King wrote: We've had a policy of only allowing people who have implementations (parsers and such) to join the list. We haven't been good at following up on people's requests to join the list. We currently have more than 100 people in the queue and the

Re: [uf-discuss] First version of Currency proposal

2006-10-11 Thread Scott Reynen
On Oct 11, 2006, at 1:18 PM, Guillaume Lebleu wrote: My intention is to have 2 class names, one for the currency (ex. U.S. currency), and one for the unit within that currency (ex. Dollar, Cent). unit is optional, b/c most currencies have a default unit (Dollar in the case of the U.S.

Re: [uf-discuss] First version of Currency proposal

2006-10-11 Thread Scott Reynen
On Oct 11, 2006, at 2:43 PM, Guillaume Lebleu wrote: Can we just treat everything as the default unit Not sure what you mean in the context of the 99c example. The default unit for the US currency is the Dollar, not the Cent, but in the context of the 99c context, we need to ensure that

Re: [uf-discuss] First version of Currency proposal

2006-10-11 Thread Scott Reynen
On Oct 11, 2006, at 4:13 PM, Guillaume Lebleu wrote: There are some examples on the Web that make use of cents, and my design philosophy with this proposal was to make simple things simple to microformat, and complex things possible to microformat, without requiring publishers to change

Re: [uf-discuss] First version of Currency proposal

2006-10-11 Thread Scott Reynen
On Oct 11, 2006, at 6:33 PM, Guillaume Lebleu wrote: Scott Reynen wrote: So which of these tasks should we aim to make simple? I'd say the latter, because it's far more common (well over 80%, I think). I think we agree here. $99 is more common than 99c, so the former should be simpler

Re: [uf-discuss] First version of Currency proposal

2006-10-12 Thread Scott Reynen
On Oct 12, 2006, at 7:35 AM, Al Gilman wrote: span class=moneyabbr class=amount title=0./abbrabbr class=currency title=USD¢/abbr/span This is the sort of absurdity that the credit card advertisers engage in. I'm not sure what this means. Do you not think 99¢ means fundamentally the

Re: [uf-discuss] new standard for product information

2006-10-12 Thread Scott Reynen
On Oct 12, 2006, at 3:49 PM, Guillaume Lebleu wrote: I think microformats would probably help adoption with the less sophisticated (smaller) retailers quickly, but would not satisfy all the business needs of more sophisticated manufacturers. I agree. See the ARTS data model

Re: title attribute and abbreviated class names (Was: [uf-discuss] Currency Quickpoll: Preliminary results)

2006-10-13 Thread Scott Reynen
On Oct 12, 2006, at 10:34 PM, Mike Schinkel wrote: Anyway, I made a proposal here: http://microformats.org/wiki/currency-brainstorming#Mike_Schinkel with the idea of trying to minimize the burden placed on the author of the HTML, and only use lots of markup in the exceptional cases. I

Re: [uf-discuss] First version of Currency proposal

2006-10-13 Thread Scott Reynen
On Oct 13, 2006, at 1:55 AM, Karl Dubost wrote: There are also issues in the way you divide numbers. In many countries, number are organized by sequence of 3 digits. For example, in Japan 10 yen = ju(10) yen 1000 yen = ichi(1) sen yen but1 yen = ichi(1) man yen

Re: title attribute and abbreviated class names (Was: [uf-discuss]Currency Quickpoll: Preliminary results)

2006-10-14 Thread Scott Reynen
On Oct 14, 2006, at 3:42 AM, Mike Schinkel wrote: I think your use of the title attribute in these examples contains two bad practices Hmm. I see your point, and being new to this I'm learning from your examples. OTOH, I also see that the proposals I first viewed as being very

Re: title attribute and abbreviated class names (Was:[uf-discuss]Currency Quickpoll: Preliminary results)

2006-10-14 Thread Scott Reynen
On Oct 14, 2006, at 3:27 PM, Mike Schinkel wrote: Your examples seem to leave a lot of ambiguity about what things mean, I'm new to proposing microformats, so I clearly have a lot to learn, but that said I don't see where what I was proposing was ambiguous. Can you give me explicit

Re: [uf-discuss] Idea: beginners/getting started list

2006-10-16 Thread Scott Reynen
On Oct 16, 2006, at 12:05 PM, Tantek Çelik wrote: I'd like to see some suggestions for the name of this new list. Here is what I have so far: * microformats-new (focusing on discussing new microformats) * microformats-research (focusing on the essential, and often overlooked by

Reorganizing the Wiki is Fun for Everyone (Was: [uf-discuss] hCalendar spec- no specification included!)

2006-10-16 Thread Scott Reynen
On Oct 16, 2006, at 3:16 PM, Benjamin West wrote: I'd love to see Andy, Phae, Scott, Tantek, and anyone else interested in improving the wiki start to use the to-do list so I can align my organizational thoughts with everyone. Perhaps we can even run some kind of virtual card sort to help

Re: title attribute and abbreviated class names(Was:[uf-discuss]Currency Quickpoll: Preliminary results)

2006-10-17 Thread Scott Reynen
- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Scott Reynen Sent: Saturday, October 14, 2006 10:39 PM To: Microformats Discuss Subject: Re: title attribute and abbreviated class names(Was:[uf- discuss]Currency Quickpoll: Preliminary results) On Oct 14, 2006, at 3:27 PM, Mike

Re: [uf-discuss] Size considerations

2006-10-18 Thread Scott Reynen
On Oct 18, 2006, at 6:49 AM, Charles Roper wrote: Is is considered better to have longer, easier-to-read, more descriptive, more semantically correct attribute values over shorter, more concise, bandwidth-saving ones? I consider semantics more important than length. This comes up enough

Re: [uf-discuss] Size considerations

2006-10-18 Thread Scott Reynen
On Oct 18, 2006, at 6:34 PM, Mike Schinkel wrote: The following is 6 characters: $54.97 This is 151 characters (according to MS-Word's stats dialog): span class=money span class=symbol title=dollar$/span abbr class=currency title=USD

Re: title attribute and abbreviated classnames(Was:[uf-discuss]Currency Quickpoll: Preliminary results)

2006-10-18 Thread Scott Reynen
On Oct 18, 2006, at 6:54 PM, Stephen Paul Weber wrote: I'd propose this as an alternative: abbr class=currency title=USD$/abbr5.99 What happened to: span class=moneyabbr class=currency title=USD$/abbrspan class=amount5.99/span/span I continue to prefer that, but I think Mike is pushing

Re: [uf-discuss] Size considerations

2006-10-18 Thread Scott Reynen
On Oct 18, 2006, at 7:16 PM, Andy Mabbett wrote: Scott Reynen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes It would be helpful to look at some real-world markup so we can come up with practical ways to address this concern. I've just posted real markup on the Wiki I should have been more clear. I'd like

Re: [uf-discuss] “Premature optimization is t he root of all evil (or at least most of it ) in programming.” — Donald Knuth

2006-10-23 Thread Scott Reynen
On Oct 23, 2006, at 8:32 AM, Brian Suda wrote: Since there have been some discussion that have spanned over several different thread and references to cross-over thread posts, i thought i might try to collapse some of it and try and make it slightly less situation specific. Thanks for

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

2006-10-24 Thread Scott Reynen
On Oct 24, 2006, at 3:41 AM, Mike Schinkel wrote: Is there a clear and definitive objective statement that explains the class of problems that microformats are intended to solve? I've not sure the context of this question, but I think the closest we have is from the about page [1]:

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

2006-10-25 Thread Scott Reynen
On Oct 25, 2006, at 5:15 PM, Mike Schinkel wrote: Thanks Charles. However I still have no idea why these things apply to specifying which page among of group of equivalent pages is authoritative and why Microformats do not. The latter seem a perfect fit to me, and what you listed either

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] vote-for

2006-10-31 Thread Scott Reynen
On Oct 31, 2006, at 11:44 AM, Siegfried Gipp wrote: 1. The link points to a resource which votes for THIS resource or contains some form or script or whatever to enable the user to vote for THIS resource, then the usage of the rev attribute is correct. This is out of scope for vote-links. I

Re: [uf-discuss] vote-for

2006-10-31 Thread Scott Reynen
On Oct 31, 2006, at 12:33 PM, Siegfried Gipp wrote: Using the same semantics for both is like saying a ballot and a polling place are functionally the same thing. Sure, both are part of voting, but that doesn't make them interchangeable. Right. Therefore use rel and rev attribute respectively

Re: [uf-discuss] Re: Actions

2006-11-01 Thread Scott Reynen
On Nov 1, 2006, at 10:35 AM, Joel Selvadurai wrote: Hi, I'm new here so forgive me for mentioning something which may have come up before. I was thinking that there needs to be some sort of microformat for an action. For example, a hResume may contain an action, and the action may be 'call'

Re: [uf-discuss] Mashup a Web page containing geo microformats with Google Earth?

2006-11-03 Thread Scott Reynen
On Nov 3, 2006, at 6:58 AM, Jeremy Keith wrote: Thinking about it, demanding the use of the geo microformat might even be redundant in some countries like the USA: Google Maps (and others) have geo-lookups built into the API now, so a good adr in an hcard would be enough. I was thinking

Re: [uf-discuss] class=url?

2006-11-04 Thread Scott Reynen
On Nov 4, 2006, at 1:38 PM, Siegfried Gipp wrote: for what purpose is the class=url as attribute of a link? The href attribute of the a container on the other hand does contain a url. It has to contain a url according to the html and xhtml specifications. Right, so the class=url is

Re: [uf-discuss] hCite progress

2006-11-13 Thread Scott Reynen
On Nov 13, 2006, at 12:35 PM, Bruce D'Arcus wrote: For the best balance of simplicity and generality, I'd suggest just pages. Don't worry about start and end because, as you noted, pages can be discontinuous. So what would that look like in markup for, say, pages 10-50? We don't have to

Re: [uf-discuss] hCite progress

2006-11-13 Thread Scott Reynen
On Nov 13, 2006, at 1:20 PM, Brian Suda wrote: Well, the mark-up might look something like: span class=pagespages 10-50/span or pages span class=pages10-50/span or (another idea, which doesn't mean much any more) was pages span class=page10/span-span class=page50/span But as Bruce said:

Re: [uf-discuss] hCite progress

2006-11-13 Thread Scott Reynen
On Nov 13, 2006, at 2:30 PM, Andy Mabbett wrote: In that case, the start page will surely be the most relevant? Yes. On Nov 13, 2006, at 3:11 PM, Bruce D'Arcus wrote: But I do feel strongly that page count is beyond scope. I agree. It doesn't seem to help any of the use cases identified

Re: [uf-discuss] hCite progress

2006-11-13 Thread Scott Reynen
On Nov 13, 2006, at 4:58 PM, Andy Mabbett wrote: I agree. It doesn't seem to help any of the use cases identified in the wiki: http://microformats.org/wiki/citation-brainstorming#Use_Cases It does: http://microformats.org/wiki/citation- brainstorming#Buy_a_copy Both Amazon and

Re: [uf-discuss] hCite progress

2006-11-14 Thread Scott Reynen
On Nov 14, 2006, at 1:16 PM, Jeremy Boggs wrote: On Nov 14, 2006, at 12:36 PM, Bruce D'Arcus wrote: But it's still a fairly narrow kind of use case. I agree that its a narrow kind of use case, but book reviews are very common, and the structure of a book review is fairly standardized.

Re: [uf-discuss] hCite progress

2006-11-14 Thread Scott Reynen
On Nov 14, 2006, at 3:57 PM, Jeremy Boggs wrote: On Nov 14, 2006, at 3:04 PM, Scott Reynen wrote: I'd say it's not a use case at all, as no on has really described how this markup would be used by parsing applications. Does the it's to which you're referring, Scott, mean hCite

Re: [uf-discuss] hCite progress

2006-11-14 Thread Scott Reynen
On Nov 14, 2006, at 8:26 PM, Jeremy Boggs wrote: On Nov 13, 2006, at 2:20 PM, Brian Suda wrote: But as Bruce said: start-end pages are not really important, just capture the string pages 10-50. So i think something akin to the first example here will work. One reason why a string might not

Re: [uf-discuss] Exporting Hcard data

2006-11-16 Thread Scott Reynen
On Nov 16, 2006, at 1:08 PM, Michelle Tarby wrote: I'm not sure if this is possible or not, but I am trying to add hCard formatting to our web directory. Everything is working fine (at least I can see it with the FF Tails extension). What I'd like to do now is add a download vcard link to

Re: [uf-discuss] hCite progress

2006-11-16 Thread Scott Reynen
On Nov 16, 2006, at 6:37 PM, Ross Singer wrote: Honestly, the more metadata the merrier. But I think inclusion of more metadata elements than absolutely necessary will be a turn off. Exactly. We'd all like more structured data on the web. But creating structures for data doesn't always

Re: [uf-discuss] hCite progress

2006-11-17 Thread Scott Reynen
On Nov 17, 2006, at 8:01 AM, Bruce D'Arcus wrote: I'm going to challenge you here, Andy, because this is yet another time (e.g. not the first) when I think you're stepping over the line. You're being hostile, and I don't think it's appropriate for productive discussion. I agree. Peace, Scott

Re: [uf-discuss] Implied hCard (was: Is class=vcard fn illegal?)

2006-11-30 Thread Scott Reynen
On Nov 30, 2006, at 1:24 PM, Ryan King wrote: On Nov 27, 2006, at 6:55 AM, Ryan Cannon wrote: It would seem that the rule still applies: [EMAIL PROTECTED] would be both the FN and Nickname fields. Perhaps parsing could key on the protocol: mailto would imply an EMAIL;TYPE=Internet and

Re: [uf-discuss] [citation] url field

2006-12-01 Thread Scott Reynen
On Dec 1, 2006, at 3:55 PM, Bruce D'Arcus wrote: If you mean why not call it URI?, Yeah, that's what I mean, and worried about collapsing the notion of URI as a name, and URL as a location. I'm skeptical we can rely on parsing a URL fo extracting a DOI/ISBN/etc. Data point: ISBNs are

Re: [uf-discuss] [citation] url field

2006-12-02 Thread Scott Reynen
On Dec 1, 2006, at 10:44 PM, Ross Singer wrote: But how many 'citable' URLs contain ISBNs? Apparently every book on Amazon.com, BarnesAndNoble.com and ISBN.nu has a URL containing its ISBN. DOIs are likely to be in a URL, but they are, sadly, impossible to discern (don't let the 10.foo

Re: [uf-discuss] Comments from IBM/Lotus rep about Microformats

2006-12-05 Thread Scott Reynen
On Dec 5, 2006, at 10:48 AM, S. Sriram wrote: From: Mike Schinkel [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://listserver.dreamhost.com/pipermail/whatwg-whatwg.org/2006- December/00 8462.html I wonder if his issues can be addressed? Ian said: class, rel, and profile are the extension mechanism for HTML

Re: [uf-discuss] species microformats OpenSearch

2006-12-06 Thread Scott Reynen
On Dec 6, 2006, at 1:14 AM, Shorthouse, David wrote: To that end, I now make use of uBio LSIDs marked-up species pages with: h1span class=species urn:lsid:ubio.org:namebank:2029133Theridion agrifoliae/span Levi, 1957/h1 .in the hopes that uBio's and other LSIDs will eventually contribute

Re: [uf-discuss] Comments from IBM/Lotus rep about Microformats

2006-12-06 Thread Scott Reynen
On Dec 6, 2006, at 7:45 AM, Bruce D'Arcus wrote: On 12/5/06, Scott Reynen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In HTML or JSON, new formats need new parsers, which must be written by someone. Exactly. The point is if you have a generic model you have a generic parser. Right. HTML doesn't have

Re: [uf-discuss] species microformats OpenSearch

2006-12-06 Thread Scott Reynen
On Dec 6, 2006, at 5:35 PM, Andy Mabbett wrote: .could ever contribute to the semantic web in a meaningful way will stand the test of taxonomic revisions I agree with this. You may well be right - but since dealing with taxonomic revisions is entirely outside the scope of uFs, so what?

Re: [uf-discuss] Comments from IBM/Lotus rep about Microformats

2006-12-07 Thread Scott Reynen
On Dec 7, 2006, at 2:28 PM, Mike Schinkel wrote: If it is not a scarce resource, please tell me what would happen if I decided to start marking up documents, as an example, using the class directory and license, for purposes other than rel-directory and re-license? The classes wouldn't cause

Re: [uf-discuss] species microformats: a penultimate reprise

2006-12-07 Thread Scott Reynen
On Dec 7, 2006, at 9:08 PM, Shorthouse, David wrote: In the face of the mess taxonomy can be at times, it would be worth thinking about GUIDs like LSIDs for use in microformats for species. uBio is but one provider of LSIDs. There are at least a half dozen other providers and many more

Re: [uf-discuss] [citation] url field

2006-12-08 Thread Scott Reynen
On Dec 8, 2006, at 12:05 PM, Michael McCracken wrote: I'm not sure why you'd mark up a CMS ID that wasn't also a URI as part of a microformat. Can you expand on your example? I'm not sure where this is going, but it looks like a discussion that I believe happened once already leading to

Re: [uf-discuss] species microformats: a penultimate reprise

2006-12-08 Thread Scott Reynen
On Dec 8, 2006, at 2:22 PM, Andy Mabbett wrote: I appreciate your attempts to offer constructive feedback. I hope this community will prove more receptive to such feedback in the future, even - perhaps especially - when it is disagreeable. David's feedback has been constructively received,

Re: [uf-discuss] Comments from IBM/Lotus rep about Microformats

2006-12-09 Thread Scott Reynen
On Dec 9, 2006, at 10:45 AM, Elias Torres wrote: However, more importantly, I need to find an important enough instance of the so-called problem that needs us to resolve the general microformat(s) case instead of hoping that if we build it, they will come. Exactly. That's my primary concern

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