At 15:33 -0800 14.01.2007, Chris Messina wrote:
I too find ths area of microformats one of the weaker areas of
consensus and of having strong examples of best practices.
On the one hand, there's the matter of style, where certain data are
hidden in the interest of visual appeal (CSS Zen Garden, etc).
Other times, data that is necessary for computer interpretation is
hidden to save cluttering the human-friendly view -- lately a
discussion on the inclusion of countries at Upcoming.
As they say over at AOL, "Me too".
I have a still-in-development PHP library that I use to publish pages
of links to news articles. It uses hAtom to represent each article
(title, capsule summary, etc). The library is capable of outputting a
list of tags (using rel-tag) to accompany each item. In some cases,
however, the taglist clutters up the display too much, and I want to
hide the tags initially and display them on demand using Javascript.
To me, violating the no-hidden-data principle seems like the lesser
of two evils here, when the alternative is to distract the user and
detract from the appearance of the page.
Just my 2c,
Angus
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