We have talked before about auto-discovery of microformatted data[1], and about describing vcards at the other end of a link. Here is the notes so far, it hasn't been talked about in awhile, so feel free to read-up and add your notes.
There is also an article about "Authoritative Metadata"[2] which details the fallbacks of where the browser/server is first suppose to gather data about the resources, then where too look next if it fails. This is important because we can start sticking things in rel="vcard" or possibly use the 'a' element TYPE attribute[3]. So you could have: <a href="http://example.org/my.vcf"; rel="something here vcard me" class="something here maybe" type="text/x-vcard">my vcard</a> This doesn't always work because the TYPE attribute has to describe the resource, but hCards are embedded in HTML, so you couldn't cite them directly unless your link was to a web service that transformed the HTML to a vCard. I hope this helps the discussion about auto-discovery, because this could be used across all microformats, hAtom, hReview, hCalendar, etc. Thanks, -brian [1] - http://microformats.org/wiki/hcard-brainstorming#Auto-Discovery [2] - http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/doc/mime-respect.html [3] - http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/struct/links.html David Janes -- BlogMatrix wrote: > That's exactly the idea. Note that we're just discussing this right > now (literally!) -- it isn't part of any spec at this point. I > certainly would like to here TC's opinion on this though, of course, > fortune favors the brave :-) > > Regards, etc... > > Pieter Walsweer wrote: >> David Janes wrote: >>> <a class="vcard" rel="vcard" href="/profile/fiahless/"><span >>> class="fn nickname">fiahless</span></a> >>> >>> To indicate that not only is this a vcard, but a better or >>> "reference" vcard is available at the other end of the link. >> >> That sound like a good idea, 'cause we're going to use these "short >> versions" of the hCards on our xfn-enabled friendslist, too. So it >> would look like this: >> >> <ul> >> [...] >> <li> >> <a class="vcard" rel="contact friend vcard" >> href="http://beta.plazes.com/plaze/cd21e1717f61ba9cf9df9006038da172/";> >> <span class="fn nickname">fiahless</span> >> </a> >> </li> >> [...] >> </ul> >> >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > 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
