At 13:35 25/01/2007, you wrote: >> Hi Chris, that's an interesting application idea but I think the idea >> behind a microformat is to describe content in the HTML document in a >> standardized format (based on common usage elsewhere such as vCard) >> rather than store it externally (for use by the browser to populate a >> form).
> I don't think this is the point, Chris wanted to focus on. > If there would be a standarized format how to describe form elements > it would help developers of extentions, plugins and useragents to > automatically prefill it. (Instead of just guessing if its possibly a > login-field). Right - so as well as being able to use microformats to signal "this block of HTML is an hCard" it might be possible to signal "this HTML form will accept an hCard". I hate to think how many times I've had to enter my details into various ecommerce sites! Chris _______________________________________________ microformats-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss
