On 20/9/2006, "David Janes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I would suggest that hTagcloud say that: "presentation is >orthogonal to what we're trying to do -- provide semantic markup of >tag clouds. Tag cloud implementers should come up with their own best >way of handling the presentaion -- in fact, they probably already >have! As a bonus, as soon as MS gets its act together you'll be able >to do the presentation directly off the semantics, but we're not there >yet".
I think this is an important point. Ultimately in marking up a tag cloud, we should be representing the value of each data point. This is what we already do with dates in hCalendar - we use an ISO datetime to give the absolute value. Common presentation techniques are a representation of that date in a friendly English-language format, and plotting the date on a calendar grid. A common presentation technique for geo is to put a pin on a map at the corresponding location, but the underlying microformat details latitude and longitude. One might argue that the same should hold true of a tag cloud. It's not inherently presentational, it's a bunch of (often relational) data points. Those points should be equally capable of being formatted in a data table or plotted as a pie chart. Even if the most common presentation would be a cloud. It's all about the data. drew. _______________________________________________ microformats-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss
