Re: [uf-discuss] human readable date parsing

2007-05-03 Thread Michael MD
iso date isn't necessarily required when someone enters a date (i.e. saying 24th June doesn't translate into a single date, neither does 'thursday'). Shouldn't the focus be on trying to standardise date I'm normally all for liberalness in parsing but NOT when the intended meaning becomes

[uf-discuss] robots-nocontent

2007-05-03 Thread Charles Iliya Krempeaux
Hello, Just an FYI. http://www.ysearchblog.com/archives/000444.html Basically, there's a class name robots-nocontent that marks a section of a webpage as not to be NOT payed attention to but Yahoo!'s webcrawler. Seems related to... http://microformats.org/wiki/robots-exclusion See ya --

Re: [uf-discuss] human readable date parsing

2007-05-03 Thread victor jalencas
Looks to me that we have these goals: * Specify a date in a format that a machine can understand (i.e. the ISO8601 format) * Stash it somewhere where it's legal to do so, and is not apparent to human readers I'm still undecided whether a full ISO date is abbreviable as a normal date, but looks

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

2007-05-03 Thread Ben Ward
Hi all, I've obviously been following the recent push to have POSH adopted as a buzzword to discourage people from mis-using the term ‘microformat’ in their semantic endeavours. Now the whole point of this is to differentiate semantic HTML from microformats, discourage the further

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

2007-05-03 Thread Serdar Kiliç
On 03/05/2007, at 7:02 PM, Ben Ward wrote: As part of our ‘community mark’ experiment I'd like to object to that usage of the microformats logo and ask those badges be removed. Regardless of what anyone thinks of the term, POSH is explicitly supposed to be a super-set of microformats, a

Re: [uf-discuss] Expanding the abbr pattern

2007-05-03 Thread Ben Wiley Sittler
i think the abbr pattern is a valid one. moving the unambiguous timestamp to some place humans can't see it is asking for it to be removed be a third party (whether that is a screenreader, an html sanitizer, or a web browser makes little difference.) and of course in some cases you can get away

Re: [uf-discuss] human readable date parsing

2007-05-03 Thread Tantek Çelik
On 5/3/07 1:40 AM, victor jalencas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Stash it somewhere where it's legal to do so valid would be more precise rather than legal and is not apparent to human readers To be clear, this clause, in the absolute, is undesirable. That is, in following the principles of

Re: [uf-discuss] human readable date parsing

2007-05-03 Thread Patrick H. Lauke
Tantek Çelik wrote: To be clear, this clause, in the absolute, is undesirable. That is, in following the principles of microformats, the date needs to be at least somewhat *visible* to humans, rather than invisible. But not the machine-readable part, if it makes no sense to the human reader.

Re: [uf-discuss] Expanding the abbr pattern

2007-05-03 Thread Patrick H. Lauke
Ben Wiley Sittler wrote: in some cases you can get away with not using abbr: Q1 '07: span class=dtstart2007-01-01/span through span class=dtend2007-04-01/span with hyphens it's reasonably human-readable. i've been using fully punctuated iso 8601 date notation it everyday life (checks,

Re: [uf-discuss] human readable date parsing

2007-05-03 Thread victor jalencas
On 03/05/07, Patrick H. Lauke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tantek Çelik wrote: To be clear, this clause, in the absolute, is undesirable. That is, in following the principles of microformats, the date needs to be at least somewhat *visible* to humans, rather than invisible. But not the

Re: [uf-discuss] human readable date parsing

2007-05-03 Thread James Craig
victor jalencas wrote: Since using ISO8601 is a w3c recommendation, I wondered where specifically they were recommending its use. Looks like there is an element (a couple of them, actually) with an attribute that can legally contain an ISO datetime: INS and DEL. Technically, that should only

Re: [uf-discuss] human readable date parsing

2007-05-03 Thread Jon Gibbins (dotjay)
Tantek Çelik wrote: and is not apparent to human readers To be clear, this clause, in the absolute, is undesirable. That is, in following the principles of microformats, the date needs to be at least somewhat *visible* to humans, rather than invisible. I still don't understand this part.

Re: [uf-discuss] human readable date parsing

2007-05-03 Thread Scott Reynen
On May 3, 2007, at 12:23 PM, Tantek Çelik wrote: and is not apparent to human readers To be clear, this clause, in the absolute, is undesirable. That is, in following the principles of microformats, the date needs to be at least somewhat *visible* to humans, rather than invisible. I

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

2007-05-03 Thread Andy Mabbett
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Ben Ward [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes I've obviously been following the recent push to have POSH adopted as a buzzword to discourage people from mis-using the term ‘microformat’ in their semantic endeavours. Now the whole point of this is to differentiate semantic HTML

Re: [uf-discuss] Expanding the abbr pattern

2007-05-03 Thread Ben Wiley Sittler
Yes, standardization takes a long time, and it's only clear in retrospect that a standard has really stuck. In my opinion, the jury is still out on ISO 8601... However, using 8601 in an abbr title and your house style in the abbr content should work just fine, right? On 5/3/07, Patrick H. Lauke

Re: [uf-discuss] Expanding the abbr pattern

2007-05-03 Thread Patrick H. Lauke
Ben Wiley Sittler wrote: However, using 8601 in an abbr title and your house style in the abbr content should work just fine, right? Yes, of course. Just wanted to add the concept that, as authors, sometimes the content part of pages isn't fully up to us either :) P -- Patrick H. Lauke

Re: [uf-discuss] human readable date parsing

2007-05-03 Thread Tantek Çelik
On 5/3/07 10:48 AM, victor jalencas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 03/05/07, Patrick H. Lauke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tantek Çelik wrote: To be clear, this clause, in the absolute, is undesirable. That is, in following the principles of microformats, the date needs to be at least somewhat

Re: [uf-discuss] human readable date parsing

2007-05-03 Thread Tantek Çelik
On 5/3/07 2:50 PM, Scott Reynen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On May 3, 2007, at 12:23 PM, Tantek Çelik wrote: and is not apparent to human readers To be clear, this clause, in the absolute, is undesirable. That is, in following the principles of microformats, the date needs to be at least

Re: [uf-discuss] abbr debate and Accessify

2007-05-03 Thread Andy Mabbett
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Andy Mabbett [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Note also that this issue was discussed previously, in September 2006: And here, in early March 2007. as part of the tread starting with: http://microformats.org/discuss/mail/microformats-discuss/2007-March/008935.html

Re: [uf-discuss] Expanding the abbr pattern

2007-05-03 Thread Andy Mabbett
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Ben Wiley Sittler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Q1 '07: span class=dtstart2007-01-01/span through span class=dtend2007-04-01/span In addition to Patrick's valid concerns about house style; I would again point out that dtend is exclusive; microformats currently (and

Re: [uf-discuss] Expanding the abbr pattern

2007-05-03 Thread Ben Wiley Sittler
Yes, hence all these tricks to communicate the same data in two different formats... On 5/3/07, Patrick H. Lauke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ben Wiley Sittler wrote: However, using 8601 in an abbr title and your house style in the abbr content should work just fine, right? Yes, of course. Just

Re: [uf-discuss] human readable date parsing

2007-05-03 Thread Tantek Çelik
On 5/3/07 1:14 PM, Jon Gibbins (dotjay) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tantek Çelik wrote: and is not apparent to human readers To be clear, this clause, in the absolute, is undesirable. That is, in following the principles of microformats, the date needs to be at least somewhat *visible* to

Re: [uf-discuss] Expanding the abbr pattern

2007-05-03 Thread Ben Wiley Sittler
just by the way, the current microformats behavior is in line with iso 8601's interval semantics from my reading of the specs. On 5/3/07, Andy Mabbett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Ben Wiley Sittler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Q1 '07: span class=dtstart2007-01-01/span

Re: [uf-discuss] human readable date parsing

2007-05-03 Thread Patrick H. Lauke
Tantek Çelik wrote: 2. Keep both copies of the data at least somewhat visible to humans so that at least *some* human eyes/ears can easily inspect both copies and ensure that they have not diverged. For the sake of argument, though: assuming that those human eyes/ears use a

Re: [uf-discuss] Expanding the abbr pattern

2007-05-03 Thread Paul Wilkins
From: Andy Mabbett [EMAIL PROTECTED] In addition to Patrick's valid concerns about house style; I would again point out that dtend is exclusive; microformats currently (and wrongly, from a semantic and accessibility PoV) require: Q1 '07: span class=dtstart2007-01-01/span through abbr

Re: [uf-discuss] human readable date parsing

2007-05-03 Thread Breton Slivka
This is a very difficult problem. Difficult problems need as many potential solutions as possible to be presented- The more solutions, the more chance of arriving at a good one. The tricky part here is creating a solution which is in line with common usage. It seems to me that by basing

Re: [uf-discuss] human readable date parsing

2007-05-03 Thread Breton Slivka
I should perhaps add that my solution must also violate either restriction 3, or 4- that is, you can hide the year element with CSS. If you leave it visible, then it may follow common usage in a lot of situations. Or you might end up using a year in situations where you may not usually

Re: [uf-discuss] human readable date parsing

2007-05-03 Thread Al Gilman
At 12:24 AM +0100 4 05 2007, Patrick H. Lauke wrote: Tantek Çelik wrote: 2. Keep both copies of the data at least somewhat visible to humans so that at least *some* human eyes/ears can easily inspect both copies and ensure that they have not diverged. For the sake of argument, though:

Re: [uf-discuss] human readable date parsing

2007-05-03 Thread James Craig
Breton Slivka wrote: span class=vmonthJuly/span span class=vday26/spanth, span class=vyear2005/span This solution is certainly more verbose, but note that it follows all restrictions except for 7. I don't think this will work, for the same reason tel-type and adr- type don't work:

Re: [uf-discuss] human readable date parsing

2007-05-03 Thread Patrick H. Lauke
Al Gilman wrote: If the machineable info is not routinely passing through the consciousness of the communicating principals (that is, people), Who may, without the machine-mediated interpretation, not actually be able to make a qualitative judgement (e.g. if I see a geo lat/long value , I'm

Re: [uf-discuss] Expanding the abbr pattern

2007-05-03 Thread Michael MD
Q1 '07: span class=dtstart2007-01-01/span through abbr class=dtend title=2007-04-022007-04-01/abbr I have proposed a solution to this problem: http://microformats.org/wiki/hcalendar-brainstorming#Simplification_of_date-end I do agree that such counter-intuitive things could

Re: [uf-discuss] human readable date parsing

2007-05-03 Thread Michael MD
I don't think this will work, for the same reason tel-type and adr- type don't work: l10n/i18n. They require displayed machine values to be in English. span class=vmonth lang=enJuly/span span class=vmonth lang=esjulio/span span class=vmonth lang=jp7 月/span span class=vmonth lang=ruиюль/span