On Nov 24, 2005, at 3:43 PM, Charles Iliya Krempeaux wrote:
Hello,
On 11/24/05, Chris Messina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
My first reaction was also to simply use vCard. The question then
becomes whether you can have multiple photo fields in one hCard...
per
the vCard spec.
I don't know if a vCard would be the best way to go for this. (Maybe
something more basic that a vCard could make use of.)
Remember, you don't have to use everything from the vCard vocabulary
when using hCard.
Consider the blogging sites that teenagers tend to use. (Like myspace
or nexopia.) They typically have "picures" loaded into there (on the
user's profile page)... like a gallery... that don't have anything to
do with contact info or anything like that. These images are often
used as avatars.
Additionally, I worry that in terms of the 80-20 rule, most people
will not have many avatars and therefore a single representation in
your hCard would be sufficient.
I've found that most people have alot of avatars and change them quite
often. It seems to be especially common amoung those from "generation
Y" and younger. And as these people get older, this will become more
common.
I terms of the demographic I'm interested in, most the people in this
"younger demographic" do have multiple avatars; and they tend to
change them quite alot.
Microformats are for general purpose use, like flour and sugar. Using
them you can build things as interesting as pizza or as simple as
bread. However, a microformat for pizza would probably be
inappropriate or not worth standardizing since its fundamental
ingredients can be broken down further into more atomic units.
Agreed, but I think an "avatar" microformat is pretty basic. It could
be a simple as something like rel-avatar.
Avatars are simply hCard photos --
I disagree. In fact, I'd say that hCards could use an avatar
microformat for it's photo.
I disagree, I think the PHOTO (or LOGO) property work fine for this
use case.
-ryan
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Ryan King
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