Thanks Jeremy. I am creating a tutorial on hCard. The approach I am taking is to show some HTML text (made up), and then describe how to mark it up using hCard properties. One point I want to make in my tutorial is that marking up the existing HTML text with hCard properties won't impact the existing HTML presentation.
/Roger -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jeremy Boggs Sent: Wednesday, November 01, 2006 7:04 PM To: Microformats Discuss Subject: Re: [uf-discuss] Best practice for the "value" subproperty "Costello, Roger L." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > <span class="fn"> > <span class="value">John </span> > will be our speaker. Mr. > <span class="value">Public</span> > </span> will talk about ... While this is more an editorial suggestion than a microformat suggestion, it seems the best solution would be: <span class="vcard"><span class="fn">John Public</span></span> will be our speaker. Mr. Public will talk about... In general, it isn't good writing practice to mention someone's first name in a sentence, and then their last name in a later sentence (and vice versa). Even if, with hCard, we could combine the first and last names into one contact card, it isn't clear just from the text itself that "John" and "Mr. Public" are the same person; It would be jarring to the reader. With the change above, the microformat parser can easily grab the hCard for "John Public" AND the reader will know that "Mr. Public" is in fact "John Public." Now, I understand the microformat question raised (it is very interesting one, I might add), but it seems like the best solution in this instance would be to avoid the problem to begin with as much as possible. Are the instances on the web, Roger, that the scenario you posed to the list is in being used? Or was this more a hypothetical question? Best, Jeremy Boggs _______________________________________________ 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
