> On Thu, 2005-11-24 at 10:25 -0800, Tantek Çelik wrote: > > In the mean time, as Ryan King as pointed out, there is nothing > > stopping you from simply marking up your phone calls using semantic > > class names, which you could re-use from hCard, to note the > phone number in particular, e.g.: > > <span class="tel">+1.415.555.1212</span> > > I know there are various groups on the Internet, all wanting > to encode the information of the world into their scheme. > This is a neat microformat approach, but an alternative might > be to use a telephony URI[1]. The number above might be > represented instead as something like: > <a href="tel:+1.415.555.1212">+1.415.555.1212</a>
That's an interesting idea which I'm not really sure I'm qualified to answer in a definitive way. However, my first thoughts on it would be: consistency: If all the other data being marked up is defined as class atributes then it would be inconsistent and a little inconvenient to have one of the things marked up in this way. The other thing would be in the prinicple of "going with what works now": putting a telephone in an anchor tag like that would obviously mean it's displayed as a valid, navigate-able link which would be confusing (and possibly annoying?) for users who then might try to click on the link. Maybe this point will be moot in 2 or 3 years if peoples PC are hooked into their phones as a defacto standard, but I think if I was to visit a website now and every telephone number was a hyperlink to a browser error message I'd probably be a little fed up before long. - Simon _______________________________________________ microformats-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss
