Re: [uf-discuss] FYI: Jeff Jarvis on microformats and Google Base

2005-11-22 Thread Scott Reynen
Jon Tan wrote: Searching for products, property and jobs could be revolutionised by MFs and immensely valuable for all users, whether they know what the blogosphere is or not. If it was ever seriously suggested that until current ones are in widespread use others should be on hold or not

Re: [uf-discuss] uF Discovery?

2005-11-24 Thread Scott Reynen
Brian Suda wrote: the advantage of saying what you have available will minumized the crawl space. I can get one file that tells me everything, or crawl the entire 40,000 Avon hCard pages to try to get the same thing. This seems counter to the DRY and/or users-first mantra of microformats.

Re: [uf-discuss] draft blog post on rel vs. rev

2005-12-01 Thread Scott Reynen
Just a typo: It get used should be It gets used in 4th from last paragraph. Other than that, my only comment is on the end: Remember, it is only the relationship between the documents, not the documents themselves which are described. I suspect many people reading that will wonder:

Re: [uf-discuss] rel-tag for hierarchical categories

2005-12-03 Thread Scott Reynen
Andreas Haugstrup wrote: Some parsers will still treat that as a single tag, but others will treat it as a hierarchy, and even in those systems treating it as a single tag, I think software.httpsubscription suggests a hierarchy to many humans. It won't be cool for those people who use

[uf-discuss] Use title attribute in non-abbr tags?

2005-12-04 Thread Scott Reynen
I looked around on the wiki, and read Tantek's original explanation of using title in abbr tags [1], but I didn't find a clear answer to this. Should title attribute values be preferred to internal text values in non-abbr tags when parsing microformats? E.g. if a parser comes across

Re: [uf-discuss] Microformat Base

2005-12-04 Thread Scott Reynen
. Anything not connected to microformats.org via pages containing microformats can still be added manually, and I made a simple submission form for that [1]. Craig Ogg wrote: On 12/1/05, Scott Reynen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I thought I'd go ahead and play around with a microformat-based

[uf-discuss] Bases

2005-12-05 Thread Scott Reynen
Charles Iliya Krempeaux wrote: On 12/5/05, Chris Messina [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/4/05, Scott Reynen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Personally, I suspect there's just not enough microformatted content out there yet to make it worth Google's cycles parsing it. [2]. But I thought it better

Re: [uf-discuss] Microformats and When 2.0

2005-12-07 Thread Scott Reynen
David Janes -- BlogMatrix wrote: Was anyone holding up the uF flag for hCalendar at When 2.0 [1]? http://tantek.com/log/2005/12.html#d06t1551 Peace, Scott ___ microformats-discuss mailing list microformats-discuss@microformats.org

Re: [uf-discuss] entry permalink in hatom

2006-01-04 Thread Scott Reynen
Tantek Çelik wrote: Copying it though violates the DRY principle and unnecessarily introduces a risk of introducing errors/changes from the spec. Are we really applying the DRY principle to documentation? Nobody uses rel-bookmark because nobody knows about it because nobody reads W3C

Re: [uf-discuss] rel-bookmark [was entry permalink in hatom

2006-01-04 Thread Scott Reynen
Kevin Marks wrote: (also, as http://www.microformats.org/wiki/rel-bookmark is #3 on Google for a search for 'rel bookmark', putting something there is better than nothing). This is the third reason for me thinking it might be best to not link to wiki pages that don't yet exist. The

Re: [uf-discuss] hReview feedback

2006-01-11 Thread Scott Reynen
Mark Nottingham wrote: For example, a review's author might be inferred from the Web site it's hosted on. What about doing something similar to hAtom: 'if an Entry has 0 Entry Author elements, the logical Entry Author is assumed to be the author of the XHTML page' [1] [1]

Re: [uf-discuss] hReview feedback

2006-01-11 Thread Scott Reynen
Benjamin Carlyle wrote: Reviews are often carried out in blog entries, so if hAtom sees widespread adoption it may also be useful to say is assumed to be the author of the containing hAtom entry. You could try and generalise by saying the containing microformat, but that is probably going too

Re: [uf-discuss] hReview feedback

2006-01-12 Thread Scott Reynen
John Panzer wrote: That is, if my review the content of a blog entry, and my entry's title is my blog entry's title, do I need to repeat it? Or can readers use headline for whatever they'd normally use summary for? Since summary is optional, this isn't as critical as author, but it would

Re: [uf-discuss] Fwd: Press release microformat

2006-01-17 Thread Scott Reynen
admin Yellowikis wrote: Would hAtom allow an embargo on a press release? Do you have an example of anyone publishing an embargoed press release on the web? Peace, Scott ___ microformats-discuss mailing list microformats-discuss@microformats.org

Re: [uf-discuss] Microformat for linking to XML source (to replace the Structured Blogging plugin's embedding method)

2006-01-18 Thread Scott Reynen
Phillip Pearson wrote: The plan is to move the XML off to a separate URL and link to it from the post. Anyone know of any prior art? http://weblog.burningbird.net/2005/12/19/aint-no-cobwebs-here/ I could also use the embedded metadata approach behind SB. However, my preferred approach

Re: [uf-discuss] hReview feedback

2006-01-18 Thread Scott Reynen
Craig Ogg wrote: Why do people disagree on what the lower bound of a rating system is? I think Ryan says Amazon's lower bound is 1 because you can't enter a lower rating (you have to click on a star to set the rating). I also believes that this is why he made it the default. I think others

Re: [uf-discuss] citation microformat encodings

2006-01-25 Thread Scott Reynen
Ross Singer wrote: In regards to your local (public) library not running one of these link resolver thingamabobs, that's hardly an excuse not find value in the technology. It's only a matter of time before all libraries have a link resolver of some sort. The rise of electronic

Re: [uf-discuss] Microformats + Thunderbird

2006-01-31 Thread Scott Reynen
Dr. Ernie Prabhakar wrote: Hmm. I'm not sure if I understand your solution. To avoid corruption, I'm pretty sure AddressBook doesn't want people writing directly to its private data store (regardless of format), so there needs to be some API. There already is:

Re: [uf-discuss] RSS/Atom to XHTML in Flock's Feed View

2006-02-01 Thread Scott Reynen
On Feb 1, 2006, at 10:00 AM, Chris Messina wrote: Are there examples in the wild of RSS/Atom conversions into hAtom? Luke Arno is working on it in XSLT, having already gone the other way: http://lukearno.com/projects/hAtom/ Peace, Scott ___

Re: [uf-discuss] chat microformat next steps

2006-02-01 Thread Scott Reynen
Joshua Kinberg wrote: Could be a fringe sort of case as I'd guess more chat logs are output in plain text. But I do believe that Apple outputs chat logs this way from iChat. Can anyone confirm? No need to speculate. There is an iChat example already on the chat- examples page:

Re: [uf-discuss] chat microformat next steps

2006-02-01 Thread Scott Reynen
On Feb 1, 2006, at 1:13 PM, Joshua Kinberg wrote: Maybe this is a dumb question because I'm working on a PC right now... How does one export the visual transcript from Apple iChat like the example I sent. That's not a simple screen grab as it includes a lengthy chat session. Does iChat include

Re: [uf-discuss] hatom parsing question

2006-02-06 Thread Scott Reynen
On Feb 6, 2006, at 10:25 AM, Chris Casciano wrote: h3a href=http://127.0.0.1/index.php?id=7; rel=bookmark class=headlineTest Post/a #183; abbr class=published title=2006-02-05T17:03:32-0800a few seconds ago/abbr by span class=authorChris/span/h3 When i run that though the the Almost

Re: [uf-discuss] Job posting microformat

2006-02-06 Thread Scott Reynen
On Feb 6, 2006, at 5:18 PM, Ryan King wrote: On Feb 6, 2006, at 2:56 PM, Mike Siekkinen wrote: Hey All, Welcome Mike! I wanted to start work on a micro format for job postings. Following the wiki advice on how to get started I have plenty of real world examples to illustrate a need. I’m

Re: [uf-discuss] Signalling use of microformats?

2006-02-09 Thread Scott Reynen
On Feb 9, 2006, at 9:24 AM, David Osolkowski wrote: Didn't someone already write a microformat spider/robot/crawler? http://randomchaos.com/microformats/base/ But that's not looking for profiles at all, just class names. Peace, Scott ___

Re: [uf-discuss] Re: Microformats for scientific papers

2006-02-19 Thread Scott Reynen
On Feb 19, 2006, at 3:59 PM, Alf Eaton wrote: On 19 Feb 2006, at 15:54, Ryan Cannon wrote: I like your use of space-separated class names (e.g. citation reference book), but you do have a little bit of redundancy: - abbr implies an abbreviation, so class=journal-title-abbr could just

Re: [uf-discuss] Re: Microformats for scientific papers

2006-02-19 Thread Scott Reynen
On Feb 19, 2006, at 7:01 PM, Alf Eaton wrote: Great! I hadn't realised it worked that way, so you can just use #ref1 to link to the li id=ref1. Do all browsers handle that properly? Not all, but enough that there's little reason not to follow the spec:

Re: [uf-discuss] hAtom Proxy

2006-02-28 Thread Scott Reynen
On Feb 28, 2006, at 1:14 PM, Luke Arno wrote: I just wanted to point out the proxy: http://lukearno.com/projects/hatom2atom Now that I know where to test it, I thought it might be worth metioning that my crawler is now returning hAtom-formatted search results:

Re: [uf-discuss] Microformat Question

2006-03-08 Thread Scott Reynen
On Mar 8, 2006, at 6:24 PM, Tantek Çelik wrote: Also, I think some folks have at least discussed an FAQ microformat, you may want to look for that as well. I don't see this in the wiki nor the email archives. But apparently multiple people remember it, so perhaps someone could fill in

Re: [uf-discuss] Plants Microformat

2006-03-23 Thread Scott Reynen
On Mar 23, 2006, at 7:20 AM, mark gibbons wrote: Hi, I am developing a microformat proposal for plants. Please take a look and join in if you wish. http://microformats.org/wiki/plant-examples I don't understand what problem this microformat would solve. The stated problem seems to be

Re: [uf-discuss] Plants Microformat

2006-03-23 Thread Scott Reynen
On Mar 23, 2006, at 8:12 AM, mark gibbons wrote: I would be the first to admit it is a niche, but here would be a few scenarios where I can see this as useful. - Collection of distributed plant information from the web into larger plant databases. - Plant catalogs can be published by retailers

Re: [uf-discuss] Plants Microformat

2006-03-23 Thread Scott Reynen
On Mar 23, 2006, at 3:43 PM, Paul Bryson wrote: but it doesn't have the major problem of identification with the latin terms acting as unique IDs. Is there any page that discusses the potential issues of using IDs in microformats? Oh, I didn't mean ID attributes - just something to

Re: [uf-discuss] Plants Microformat

2006-03-23 Thread Scott Reynen
On Mar 23, 2006, at 8:31 PM, Breton Blake Slivka wrote: Brian, if you look at the wiki, it would seem that he already has done much of what you list. I'm with you so far as defining the simpler microformat first for the Latin classification system. My thought is that it's a very specific

Re: [uf-discuss] Plants Microformat

2006-03-24 Thread Scott Reynen
On Mar 24, 2006, at 12:08 PM, Andy Mabbett wrote: What do you mean by plants? Garden plants? Plants as studied by botanists? Plant-material, such as cut flowers, or planks of timber? Is there really any ambiguity here? The former two are the same thing, no? Does a plant become something

Re: [uf-discuss] Enumerating Microformats on a Page

2006-03-24 Thread Scott Reynen
On Mar 24, 2006, at 12:17 PM, Phil Haack wrote: I can envision something similar with Microformats. Suppose I point my brand spanking new Microformats enabled RSS Bandit towards http://glazkov.com/ and it pops up a list of various Microformats on that page. Wonderful! The bummer is that

Re: [uf-discuss] Enumerating Microformats on a Page

2006-03-24 Thread Scott Reynen
On Mar 24, 2006, at 4:20 PM, Ryan King wrote: Hmm, this sounds to me like a theoretical argument. I'd like to hear what experience people have had here. Has anyone here worked on crawling to index microformats? If so, what challenges did you face? Yes. The two I know of are reevoo,

Re: [uf-discuss] Plants Microformat

2006-03-24 Thread Scott Reynen
On Mar 24, 2006, at 4:04 PM, Ryan King wrote: I've so far stayed out of the discussion about a plant microformat, mostly because I don't really care about talking about plants on the Web. Let's take a step back and think about whether a microformat for plants is worthwhile– We should

Re: [uf-discuss] Enumerating Microformats on a Page

2006-03-26 Thread Scott Reynen
On Mar 26, 2006, at 7:48 PM, Antonio Touriño wrote: I'd want to take advantage of it to decide where to start, but not where to end. A search engine should seek to maximize the search area to improve results. I want to look at everything on your site, unless instructed otherwise. If there

Re: [uf-discuss] Citation format straw proposal on the wiki

2006-03-29 Thread Scott Reynen
On Mar 29, 2006, at 9:36 AM, Alf Eaton wrote: span class=editors span class=editorJohn Green/span and span class=editorSimon Brown/span (Eds); /span I guess there are some things in

[uf-discuss] HTML Analytical Lexicon

2006-04-01 Thread Scott Reynen
After reading the recent discussion of a meta-microformat, I decided to play around with the idea. I've probably gone through 9000 revisions, but I think I have a usable tool now, which I'm calling HTML Analytical Lexicon. What it does is parse natural language queries and derive a

Re: [uf-discuss] Some hcard feedback from a vCard implementor

2006-04-04 Thread Scott Reynen
On Apr 4, 2006, at 12:25 PM, Sam Roberts wrote: Hi, I'm the author of Vpim (http://vpim.rubyforge.org), an implementation (in progress) of vCard and iCalendar encoding/decoding for ruby. Neat. but you can't go the other way, there is no way for the receiver to know the cultural conventions

Re: [uf-discuss] Some hcard feedback from a vCard implementor

2006-04-04 Thread Scott Reynen
On Apr 4, 2006, at 3:19 PM, Ryan King wrote: There's no example for this on the wiki, Actually, there is: http://microformats.org/wiki/hcard-examples I still don't see anything in the wiki where FN and N exist as non- overlapping siblings in the hierarchy. Everything I see has either N

Re: [uf-discuss] Some hcard feedback from a vCard implementor

2006-04-04 Thread Scott Reynen
On Apr 4, 2006, at 7:14 PM, Ryan King wrote: I wouldn't even now how to begin encoding a vCard as an hCard, and it doesn't sound like there is any reason to. Would an hcard even exist, standalone? Huh? Would it exist on its own? There are plenty of hCards that exist on their own,

Re: [uf-discuss] Live Clipboard and uF escaping (was Fwd: 0.91 Spec comment: escaped markup is harmful)

2006-04-06 Thread Scott Reynen
On Apr 6, 2006, at 5:25 AM, Danny Ayers wrote: I'm not sure I understand why Matt suggests XML data might have to be delivered as both XML and escaped as well, but he gets into browser/DOM territory, a place presumably well-known around this list - thoughts appreciated. I don't understand

Re: [uf-discuss] Re: Live Clipboard and uF escaping

2006-04-06 Thread Scott Reynen
On Apr 6, 2006, at 2:55 PM, Ryan Cannon wrote: Treating XHTML as HTML is losing all of the benefits of using XHTML, and theoretically opens you up to parsing errors. If you're going to use the HTML DOM, why not use HTML, instead of causing potential breakage and confusion in the future

[uf-discuss] What does draft mean? (was: Citation IRC Meet-up Time)

2006-04-10 Thread Scott Reynen
On Apr 10, 2006, at 10:09 AM, Tantek Çelik wrote: Alf, it is premature to be making recommendations when the necessary steps in the process have not yet been completed. More on the wiki page itself. I read the wiki page itself, and I don't see anything more descriptive than process not

Re: [uf-discuss] What does draft mean? (was: Citation IRC Meet-up Time)

2006-04-10 Thread Scott Reynen
On Apr 10, 2006, at 11:20 AM, Tantek Çelik wrote: One poor job does not deserve another - this line of argument NEVER justifies poor behavior. I intentionally avoided making any line of argument, as I thought simply asking for clarification would be more productive. Apparently I was

Re: [uf-discuss] Chat microformat/podcast transcript

2006-04-12 Thread Scott Reynen
On Apr 12, 2006, at 8:45 PM, Jude Robinson wrote: I agree entirely. Think it very odd and reckon cite and q/ blockquote more appropriate. Don't understand the dl suggestion at all. This is what I'm doing in an AJAX chat system I've been working on. But looking at the examples [1], there

Re: [uf-discuss] Google at it again

2006-04-13 Thread Scott Reynen
On Apr 13, 2006, at 8:37 AM, Mark Pilgrim wrote: Anyway, I'd bet microformats were not a top priority for their initial release of Gcal, but that doesn't mean they can't add it later. Can't we add it ourselves? I'm assuming the events are being submitted via an AJAX call and authenticated

[uf-discuss] Google hCalendar Greasemonkey script

2006-04-14 Thread Scott Reynen
On Apr 13, 2006, at 9:45 AM, Mark Pilgrim wrote: I will donate a free copy of Greasemonkey Hacks to the first person to write a Greasemonkey script that * adds a remind me with Google Calendar button ( http://www.google.com/googlecalendar/event_publisher_guide.html ) next to any event

Re: [uf-discuss] Google hCalendar Greasemonkey script

2006-04-15 Thread Scott Reynen
On Apr 15, 2006, at 2:31 PM, Alf Eaton wrote: Upcoming is wrong - timezones have been on their to-do list for ages. Looks like they've got things working now anyway... http://upcoming.org/news/archives/2006/04/14/fun_with/ I wouldn't call it working. They've made their own export to

Re: class names Was: [uf-discuss] hcard validation

2006-04-18 Thread Scott Reynen
On Apr 18, 2006, at 8:16 AM, Mark Wallace wrote: I'm sorry for asking a really silly question, but doesn't it make sense that any class should have a a space as either a dash or underscore? If memory serves, the url fn would break the standard css formating... Though most authors only

Re: [uf-discuss] hcard name/fn question

2006-04-19 Thread Scott Reynen
On Apr 19, 2006, at 12:49 AM, Rebecca Cox wrote: If a number of sub-properties are specified within n, do these all have to be included in fn? For example, if I had something like: - n: family-name: Cox given-name: Rebecca additional-name: Laura

Re: life, death and address books (was Re: [uf-discuss] hCard and Life Dates?)

2006-04-19 Thread Scott Reynen
On Apr 19, 2006, at 10:52 AM, Tantek Çelik wrote: Rather than attempting to shoehorn this into hCard, perhaps citations are the right place to think about this? I think there is a large difference between what to do with contact data for an acquaintance who has recently passed away and

Re: [uf-discuss] Plazes Microformats

2006-04-19 Thread Scott Reynen
On Apr 19, 2006, at 2:23 PM, Ryan King wrote: That's right. The reason you can't collapse a 'vcard' class name and its 'fn' class name is that it makes putting a 'vcard' class name inside another one becomes ambiguous. I've seen this explanation a few times, and I've never personally

Re: [uf-discuss] Plazes Microformats

2006-04-19 Thread Scott Reynen
On Apr 19, 2006, at 4:32 PM, Ryan King wrote: div class=vcard span class=fnTantek Çelik/span span class=agent vcard !-- the order is actually irrelevant here class=vcard agent is synonymous -- span class=fnRyan King/span /span /div Which hcard does the 'agent'

Re: uid microformats? (was Re: [uf-discuss] ISBN mark-up)

2006-04-25 Thread Scott Reynen
On Apr 25, 2006, at 9:21 AM, Tantek Çelik wrote: The closest thing to UIDs that current publishers of hCards are publishing are their unique URLs within their sites (e.g. Upcoming and Eventful venues and events). I have a concern that using URLs as UIDs will prevent them from being

Re: uid microformats? (was Re: [uf-discuss] ISBN mark-up)

2006-04-25 Thread Scott Reynen
On Apr 25, 2006, Tantek Çelik wrote: We *want* resources that can be identified by network location and thus a system that shows a bias *for* that is a *good* thing. Is the proposal that UIDs SHOULD be URLs or UIDs MUST be URLs? If it's MUST, that would seem to discourage use of

Re: [uf-discuss] hCalendar - every week event

2006-04-25 Thread Scott Reynen
On Apr 25, 2006, at 8:59 PM, Michael MD wrote: re: http://www.dgabcsolutions.com.br/preview/camarascs/cm_home.asp Is it actually allowed to have a hcalendar event without a date? If so that could be a problem .. I think in the parser I want to put together that will have to be a requirement.

Re: uid microformats? (was Re: [uf-discuss] ISBN mark-up)

2006-04-26 Thread Scott Reynen
On Apr 26, 2006, at 12:13 AM, Joe Andrieu wrote: if microformats are going to take off, shouldn't there be a way to disambiguate inevitable conflicts? There is. See profiles: http://microformats.org/wiki/profile-uris Alternatively, who is to say which version of hCoupon is valid? Mark

Re: uid microformats? (was Re: [uf-discuss] ISBN mark-up)

2006-04-26 Thread Scott Reynen
On Apr 26, 2006, at 10:44 AM, Tantek Çelik wrote: Ross, if the problem you're trying to solve doesn't involve common real world publishing cases on the *Web*, then yes, it should be dismissed as far as microformats are concerned. A large portion of what is published on the web references

Re: uid microformats? (was Re: [uf-discuss] ISBN mark-up)

2006-04-26 Thread Scott Reynen
On Apr 26, 2006, at 11:44 AM, Tantek Çelik wrote: A large portion of what is published on the web references things that don't exist on the web, and thus don't have a canonical URL. Right, and to resolve whether it is a large portion or not, we ask that such things are documented in

Re: uid microformats? (was Re: [uf-discuss] ISBN mark-up)

2006-04-26 Thread Scott Reynen
On Apr 26, 2006, at 11:54 AM, Bruce D'Arcus wrote: I'm glad there's some progress in this discussion, but you're still trying to come up with a general rule for disparate things. Nope, we're trying to come up with a general recommendation, not a rule. So there's no need to explain why URL

Re: [uf-discuss] Microformats vs XML

2006-04-27 Thread Scott Reynen
On Apr 27, 2006, at 8:06 AM, Dimitri Glazkov wrote: Scott, I wouldn't be so sure. http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/author/behaviors/library/ calendar/calendar.asp Take a look at the example at the bottom. In my pre-semantic markup days, I've used CSS to style xml (namespaces and all) tags

Re: [uf-discuss] Microformats for everyone!

2006-04-27 Thread Scott Reynen
On Apr 27, 2006, at 8:36 AM, Christopher St John wrote: Do you see this as being related to the uf zen garden effort? (which seems to have stalled a bit) Here's a working implementation that applies CSS and/or JS to sample microformat template pages:

Re: question about client-side xslt rendering (was Re: [uf-discuss] Microformats vs XML, redundancy)

2006-04-27 Thread Scott Reynen
On Apr 27, 2006, at 12:03 PM, Xiaoming Liu wrote: This file can be rendered in IE and Firefox, because they do xslt client-side rendering, so the display is correct, but when I check page source, it's still the raw xml file. And when writing a script to fetch Microformats fragments, I have

Re: Disambiguation [was RE: uid microformats? (was Re: [uf-discuss] ISBN mark-up)]

2006-04-29 Thread Scott Reynen
On Apr 29, 2006, at 5:32 PM, Benjamin Carlyle wrote: It is not clear to me at this time that microformats need profiles. hcard seems to have several profiles: http://microformats.org/wiki/hcard-profile http://www.w3.org/2006/03/hcard hcalendar seems to have none. Has this harmed adoption or

Re: [uf-discuss] Microformats vs XML

2006-04-30 Thread Scott Reynen
On Apr 30, 2006, at 9:56 PM, Karl Dubost wrote: *Remember* that I concluded the mail by ying-yang. Nothing is all good or all bad. It's yin-yang (no 'g' on 'yin'), and that's not really what it means. Yin-yang is the balance of opposing forces, e.g. human- readability and

Re: Language Maps [was RE: [uf-discuss] Microformats vs XML]

2006-05-01 Thread Scott Reynen
On May 1, 2006, at 3:33 AM, Joe Andrieu wrote: All without any requirement of seeing or using English except the one reference to hCard in the title of the profile. And all the HTML. The problem is that we need a shared language in order to communicate, and machines are bad at translation.

Re: Disambiguation [was RE: aid microformats? (was Re: [uf-discuss]ISBN mark-up)]

2006-05-01 Thread Scott Reynen
On May 1, 2006, at 2:29 AM, Joe Andrieu wrote: You have to at least start parsing the html document in order to know which profiles are used. Agreed. The presumption here is that processing is cheap and undirected. There's no way to download only the DOCTYPE or the head of a document,

Re: [uf-discuss] meeting minutes: microformats needed?

2006-05-03 Thread Scott Reynen
On May 3, 2006, at 6:31 AM, Edward Summers wrote: On May 3, 2006, at 5:29 AM, brush wrote: *new microformat?: hparticipants (multiple hcards plus class=role) -- could be useful in many other circumstances If a role could somehow be assigned to an hCard it would be very useful in the

Re: [uf-discuss] meeting minutes: microformats needed?

2006-05-03 Thread Scott Reynen
On May 3, 2006, at 1:43 PM, brush wrote: one thought about role: is it appropriate to re-engineer the category from what is apparently originally intended as a relatively static feature (ie. sales engineer for a person or green construction for an organization) to something relevant only in

[uf-discuss] hcalendar timezone, DST examples

2006-05-12 Thread Scott Reynen
I believe the most common flaw in vevents is currently missing or incorrect timezones. I was just looking at how timezones are shown in the examples, and discovered that they aren't. Every single example is marked as Z. On the live web, I don't see many actually converting their times

Re: [uf-discuss] hcalendar timezone, DST examples

2006-05-12 Thread Scott Reynen
On May 12, 2006, at 2:02 PM, Scott Reynen wrote: I believe the most common flaw in vevents is currently missing or incorrect timezones. I was just looking at how timezones are shown in the examples, and discovered that they aren't. Every single example is marked as Z. On the live web, I

Re: [uf-discuss] hcalendar timezone, DST examples

2006-05-12 Thread Scott Reynen
On May 12, 2006, at 3:56 PM, Ryan King wrote: Certainly, we need more educational material on how people should use timezones. Deleting attempts to create such material without notice strikes me as a funny way to get it created. I'm not sure what you mean by discussion. I reversed the

Re: [uf-discuss] Addressing bits of information

2006-05-25 Thread Scott Reynen
On May 25, 2006, at 3:04 AM, Chris Messina wrote: how do we create URIs for partial bits of data like a word or hcard in the middle of a paragraph? http://www.eekim.com/blog/tech/hyperscope/hyperscopeuri.html I'm not sure that's really the question being asked by Eugene. It sounds like

Re: [uf-discuss] Addressing bits of information

2006-05-25 Thread Scott Reynen
On May 25, 2006, at 10:52 AM, Tantek Çelik wrote: What problem is this solving? What human readable content is this marking up? This is sounding off-topic for microformats. Am I missing something? I don't think it's about publishing microformats, but rather parsing microformats. That

Re: [uf-discuss] RDFa and microformats

2006-05-30 Thread Scott Reynen
On May 30, 2006, at 3:53 PM, Elias Torres wrote: I'm missing your point Scott. If what you refer to as real-world implementation is (vcard, vcalendar, etc), then RDFa draws from them just as well uF does. I wasn't comparing microformats and RDFa. I was comparing RDFa and vcard. There were

Re: [uf-discuss] microformats search and pinging

2006-06-02 Thread Scott Reynen
On Jun 1, 2006, at 5:50 PM, Tantek Çelik wrote: Mea Culpa. Okay. On Jun 1, 2006, at 7:08 PM, Kevin Marks wrote: Scott, I'm trying to relay pings to you byt they don't seem to eb working: It currently fails on anything that's not well-formed X(HT)ML, so it's probably not worth

Re: [uf-discuss] hCalendar for events in tables (real world examples)

2006-06-02 Thread Scott Reynen
On Jun 2, 2006, at 5:51 PM, Andy Mabbett wrote: It seems clear to me that, since its talking about markup that its for authors. You asked me to let you know if they lack clarity in any way; not whether they were clear to you. Yeah, what's up with asking if it's clear and then arguing

Re: [uf-discuss] Re: DOM scripting as an alternative to include-pattern?

2006-06-03 Thread Scott Reynen
On Jun 3, 2006, at 3:19 PM, Michael Leikam wrote: I brought up client side parsing not to imply that sever-side parsing is irrelevant, but to say that there's already a well-known and robust way to copy precise parts of the DOM and insert them in precide locations. You can already implement

Re: [uf-discuss] Re: DOM scripting as an alternative to include-pattern?

2006-06-05 Thread Scott Reynen
On Jun 5, 2006, at 12:27 PM, Michael Leikam wrote: could you (or anybody else really) explain a little more about the differences you see between supporting DOM manipulation during the parsing, as I've suggested, and supporting include-patterns? The include pattern describes simple behavior

Re: [uf-discuss] mf-dev

2006-06-07 Thread Scott Reynen
On Jun 7, 2006, at 9:52 AM, Tantek Çelik wrote: Perhaps this should be an FAQ with more explanation, but the microformats-dev list is open for subscription to only those with a public implementation. FYI, I have two microformat parsers. I've read multiple suggestions that I should join

Re: [uf-discuss] mf-dev

2006-06-07 Thread Scott Reynen
On Jun 7, 2006, at 11:09 AM, Drew McLellan wrote: The link to the signup page is here: http://microformats.org/discuss/ That's the Discuss page of microformats.org - it's on every page as part of the main navigation bar. I'd like to be able to suggest ways to make it easier to find, but

Re: [uf-discuss] include pattern question

2006-06-11 Thread Scott Reynen
On Jun 11, 2006, at 1:03 PM, Michael Leikam wrote: As I understand it, well-formed XHTML is required when authoring content because it needs to be rendered by user agents (e.g., browsers) in a human-friendly way *and* parsable by XML tools (like Brians X2V parser, which uses XSLT to reformat

Re: [uf-discuss] LinkedIn and Microformats

2006-06-13 Thread Scott Reynen
On Jun 13, 2006, at 4:18 PM, David Janes -- BlogMatrix wrote: I was going to report the happy news that LinkedIn [1] is using hCards, as my little Greasemonkey script was showing an icon on the page. Alas, it's not to be -- here's what they're doing: p class=vcarda

Re: [uf-discuss] LinkedIn and Microformats

2006-06-13 Thread Scott Reynen
On Jun 13, 2006, at 5:10 PM, Tantek Çelik wrote: Ideally, they'd be using microformats, but they're not doing anything wrong here. Microformats don't own class attributes, and that's a perfectly descriptive use of the class attribute. I think this is a good reminder that those of us writing

Re: [uf-discuss] Spam and Microformats Search

2006-06-19 Thread Scott Reynen
On Jun 19, 2006, at 9:56 AM, Patrick Crowley wrote: Great job on MF search, guys. My hCard is showing up nicely now, but I noticed my email is sitting out in the open. Any chance you can add spam protection to search results? Isn't it already sitting out in the open for the search to have

Re: [uf-discuss] hKit parsing library for PHP5

2006-06-19 Thread Scott Reynen
On Jun 19, 2006, at 5:10 PM, Drew McLellan wrote: I poked around looking at stuff that's already out there, including Microformats Base, but I couldn't find anything that fitted the model I was after - namely chuck in a string or URL, and get out an array structure of, say, hCards. So in

Re: [uf-discuss] hKit parsing library for PHP5

2006-06-19 Thread Scott Reynen
On Jun 19, 2006, at 5:10 PM, Drew McLellan wrote: I poked around looking at stuff that's already out there, including Microformats Base, but I couldn't find anything that fitted the model I was after - namely chuck in a string or URL, and get out an array structure of, say, hCards. I

Re: [uf-discuss] hKit parsing library for PHP5

2006-06-20 Thread Scott Reynen
On Jun 20, 2006, at 12:04 PM, Drew McLellan wrote: I'll not keep clogging up this list with updates, but I thought this one was worth it as I've fixed a large number of problems since the initial release last night. I'd be interested in hearing about such updates, though I agree they

Re: [uf-discuss] More Microformats Browser UI

2006-06-22 Thread Scott Reynen
On Jun 21, 2006, at 8:29 PM, Chris Messina wrote: So, here's a challenge: what kind of solutions can we come up with that are single click only? I just made this Greasemonkey script yesterday: http://greasemonkey.makedatamakesense.com/callto_tel/ It wraps TEL numbers in hcards with callto:

Re: [uf-discuss] Very basic question that is not in the FAQ

2006-06-22 Thread Scott Reynen
On Jun 22, 2006, at 8:32 AM, Tantek Çelik wrote: Sam points out that I am employed by Technorati and implies that poses some sort of conflict or corporate bias. I'll challenge you on that Sam, because the (by design deliberate) policies of having open email/IRC/wiki with archives actually

Re: [uf-discuss] Very basic question that is not in the FAQ

2006-06-22 Thread Scott Reynen
On Jun 22, 2006, at 9:46 AM, Tantek Çelik wrote: Hamper compared to what? When I'm telling someone about microformats and they express concern that Technorati might try to control microformats as Microsoft or Google has been feared trying to control the web, or Apple trying to control

Re: [uf-discuss] Very basic question that is not in the FAQ

2006-06-22 Thread Scott Reynen
On Jun 22, 2006, at 1:20 PM, Kevin Marks wrote: The point of microformats is to give up control. Technorati genuinely believes that distributed open formats are more valuable than centralised closed ones, and that is a big reason why Tantek and I work here. I know all this. My point is

Re: [uf-discuss] permalinks for microformat chunks of pages: use the 'id' attribute on root microformat elements

2006-06-22 Thread Scott Reynen
On Jun 22, 2006, at 1:54 PM, Tantek Çelik wrote: The microformat chunks (e.g. hCards, hCalendar events, hReviews etc.) that have an id attribute are much easier to automatically reference (and thus link to and browser/scroll to from search results) than those without. In the past, I've

Re: Include fragments [was RE: [uf-discuss] a.include mimetype]

2006-07-10 Thread Scott Reynen
On Jul 10, 2006, at 1:06 PM, Joe Andrieu wrote: Including references to fragments on other pages creates the problems Chris brought up: that the fragment, which may be from some other author and may be arbitrarily formed or invalid or impermanent. Tantek wrote on IRC today that it is not

Re: [uf-discuss] rel-tag: Sorry, I'm confused as to what it means

2006-07-11 Thread Scott Reynen
On Jul 11, 2006, at 10:34 AM, Lee Amosslee wrote: I've read all the FAQ pages, and maybe I'm just being dense, but can someone explain to me the difference between a hyperlink that should include rel-tag and one that *shouldn't* include one? The microformats wiki states: By adding

Re: [uf-discuss] More responses to slashdot comments

2006-07-13 Thread Scott Reynen
On Jul 13, 2006, at 3:17 PM, Sho Kuwamoto wrote: Depending on the look I wanted to achieve, I might find myself needing to surround, say, the first three divs by another div (let's call it leftColumn because there is no semantic relationship between these three sections). Why isn't leftColumn

Re: [uf-discuss] Currency microformat

2006-07-18 Thread Scott Reynen
On Jul 18, 2006, at 9:54 AM, Ciaran McNulty wrote: It'd be pretty neat to have a browser widget that converted all the USD prices on an American site into their equivalent GBP on mouseover, or something along those lines. It already is pretty neat: http://viewmycurrency.wordpress.com/about/

Re: [uf-discuss] Developing a strategy for deployment of microformats

2006-07-18 Thread Scott Reynen
On Jul 18, 2006, at 2:03 PM, Ryan King wrote: Another problem - going to, for example, http://www.bath.ac.uk/whats-on/getevent.php?event_id=3010catIds=ALL Tails use the correct date (17 July) whereas the Google hCalendar Greeasemonkey script uses a date of 16 July. I'm not familiar that

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