It might, yes... Put it this way: there's a convergence coming between OpenID, microformats (especially XFN and hcard) and being able to specify assertions about a given hcard without having all information, in my thinking, is valuable.
Now, I know there was the recent discussion about visible vs invisible microformats, but if you only have a name visible, it's nice to be able to specify where the authoritative data should come from. In the case of the Apple webmail address book, consider this use case: 1. assume an hcard on a page in the webmail address book 2. assume that there's at least a name (fn) 3. assume that there's a url included in that hcard; also assume that said URL is an OpenID identifier Now, whenever you call up that hcard throughout the system (for example, in the To: autocomplete field), the added div would have the same ID (or class?). This would enable the system to look up the authoritative information and update it if a conflict exists. Clearly, Apple uses a hash that corresponds to your local Address Book.app's internal file storage to create the IDs (I presume), but using a dash-url would probably suffice if your filesystem were made up of webpages. Anyway, we've discussed the matter of authoritative hcards and GUIDs for people before -- Apple's gone ahead and created a system that actually implements one model for this problem. I think this gives us an opportunity to look at how identity/auth systems start to interact with data storage services. Thoughts? Chris On 10/29/06, Ben Ward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 29 Oct 2006, at 21:45, Chris Messina wrote: > if only URLs could be turned into IDs: Not sure what your intention would be Chris, but there's a fairly well established practice of converting 'http://microformats.org/ something.html to the form 'microformats-org-something-html' for page- unique BODY element IDs. Would that suffice? Ben _______________________________________________ microformats-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss
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