I think in general that Tantek had conversations pegged with the original example using <q> <cite> and <blockquote>. Through in some hCal conventions and hCard to mark up the speaker, and we've got ourselves something nearly complete, using existing microformats.
It's true that we're missing the enter/exit actions... as well as things like changing the topic, addressing comments to someone in IRC (though that could just be a regular quotation), etc. I'm going to add a couple more examples to the page, but it does seem like there's a good case for a conversations microformat that addresses transcripts of instant and/or phone conversations. While we're at it, take a look at what Kent Bye has done "Dynamically Creating Sound Bite Sequences with SMIL & Drupal": http://www.echochamberproject.com/node/750 If we could markup his snippets in this conversation format, we could tie an IRC backchannel directly to QT playback. Wouldn't that be faboolus? Chris On 2/2/06, Christopher St John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2/2/06, Ryan King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Feb 1, 2006, at 8:05 PM, Christopher St John wrote: > > > ... > > > Non-IRC conversations[1] are potentially much closer. > > > > > > [1] http://kitta.net/2006/02/01/i-am-heartbroken/ > > > > Not to be pendantic, but that actually *is* an example of an IRC > > conversation. Don't let the cute girl fool you. > > > > My thought was that although the source of the data might have > been an IRC/IM chat session, it was being presented in the same > way a phone or in-person conversation might be presented. > > I suspect there's a more general "conversation" principle at > work somewhere here, which is one of the reasons I like the > microformats way : it's ok to not do something general. > > Should it go up on the examples page, maybe with a note saying > that some think it's an edge case? > > > -cks > > > -- > Christopher St. John > http://artofsystems.blogspot.com > _______________________________________________ > microformats-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss > _______________________________________________ microformats-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss
