Instead of narrowing the problem to letting users specify their own
avatar, why not let them specify their own "vcard" (or the URI to that
vcard), solving not only the the avatar image problem but allowing
alternate ids depending on the context?
At this point, I'll mention a uF I started sketching out several days
ago for "alternates" [1]. One could then have a page saying that "these
3 vcards are alternates of one another" doing something like (under one
proposal):
<ul class="alternates myid">
<li class="vcard myid">... vcard 1 ...</li>
<li class="vcard myid">... vcard 2 ...</li>
<li class="vcard myid">... vcard 3 ...</li>
</ul>
("myid" is an arbitrary string). You would use <ol> if there was a
preference involved.
If you then added 'id="vcard1"' (etc) to each of the <li>s, the vcards
are individually URI addressable.
Regards, etc...
David
[1] http://microformats.org/wiki/alternates-brainstorming
PS. Since I misunderstood the question initially, I might as well give
the vcard transformation I did on Planet Gnome:
<div class="person-info">
<a href="http://tirania.org/blog/index.html"; title="Miguel de Icaza">
<img class="face" src="http://planet.gnome.org/heads/miguel.png"; alt="">
<br />
Miguel de Icaza
<br />
(miguel)
</a>
</div>
... becomes ...
<div class="vcard person-info">
<a class="url" href="http://tirania.org/blog/index.html"; title="Miguel
de Icaza">
<img class="photo" class="face"
src="http://planet.gnome.org/heads/miguel.png"; alt="">
<br />
<span class="fn">Miguel de Icaza</span>
<br />
(<span class="nickname">miguel</span>)
</a>
</div>
Charles Iliya Krempeaux wrote:
Hello,
On 11/24/05, Tantek Çelik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 11/23/05 11:05 PM, "Charles Iliya Krempeaux" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
Hello,
Is there a Micformat for specifying a user's Avatars?
Could you be more specific about what you mean by an "Avatar"?
Here's basically what I want. I want to be able to specify a list of
avatars. (I.e., I want to be able to specify more than one avatar for
myself. And possibly associate metadata with each avatar.)
Here's a use case for it. Consider Planet GNOME
<http://planet.gnome.org/>. This site aggregates the blogs of many of
the GNOME developers. Next to each post there is an avatar for each
person. (Specifically, this site uses a special kind of avatar called
a Hackergotchi.)
Now, this site is running "Planet Planet" <http://planetplanet.org/>.
And I know that it is NOT getting these avatar images from each of the
authors websites. It has them stored locally. And there is an
internal configuration file that associates avatar images with blog.
I think it would be better if it would let blog authors specify their
own avatar. A microformat for avatars would help software (like
Planet Planet) get each person's avatar. (If the Planet Planet
software could get a list of each blog author's avatars, and then find
the Hackergotchi avatar, and then use that... it would be "good".)
Perhaps providing a URL to an example or two would help.
http://planet.gnome.org/
http://planet.debian.net/
http://planet.ubuntulinux.org/
Anyone working
on one? (A Microformat where a user could specify a list of avatars
that one uses would be preferable.)
If you're speaking of Gravatars for example, then hCard already solves this
problem, as it provides the key pieces: url, email, fn, logo.
The problem with hCard is that it displays you avatar (on the page).
It would be nice if you could "declare" your avatars without having to
display them. I.e., maybe something along the lines of:
<a rel="avatar" href="/image/avatar1.png">...</a>
<a rel="avatar" href="/image/avatar2.png">...</a>
<a rel="avatar" href="/image/avatar3.png">...</a>
(Instead of using <img> tags.)
(I didn't find anything in the wiki about one.)
Try the search box in the left column of the wiki.
When I search the wiki for "Avatar", I found it on one page:
http://microformats.org/wiki/blog-post-formats
Sorry, I should have worded that better. I didn't find anything along
the lines of what I wanted.
Which only discussed an example of an existing blog post format that uses an
"Avatar" which *could* use hCard.
But you're right. We should at least provide a place to answer questions
like "how would I represent X", where X can potentially be represented using
an existing microformat.
I've added Gravatars and a few other applications to a new section on the
hCard spec.
http://microformats.org/wiki/hcard#Additional_Applications
I think it is desirable to be able to specify more than just gravatar
avatars. (For example, using hackergotchi avatars would also be
desirable).
For example, maybe something like:
<a class="href-hackergotchi" rel="avatar" href="/image/avatar1.png">...</a>
<a class="href-gravatar" rel="avatar" href="/image/avatar2.png">...</a>
<a rel="avatar" href="/image/avatar3.png">...</a>
(I guess you could equally use the <link> tag for this too.)
See ya
--
Charles Iliya Krempeaux, B.Sc.
charles @ reptile.ca
supercanadian @ gmail.com
developer weblog: http://ChangeLog.ca/
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