On 5/10/07, Keith Grennan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
However, if I gave someone a link to one of my blog entries, it would be harder for them to know that this card was authoritative for that entry - but I don't have as much of a problem with that.
--- this is where the rel="me" can help to consolidate identity.[1]
My only sticky point now is sharing my photo - the Technorati contacts service doesn't fetch the hcard photo, and neither does my mac's Address Book.app. Fetching the photo and inlining it in the vcard, albeit to compensate for the limitations of desktop apps, would be a nice feature for an hcard-to-vcard service.
This is correct, this is a limitation of desktop apps they do not derefference the URL to find the image. There is away around this by using the DATA URI to encode, but there are drawbacks because IE7 doesn't support the DATA URI.[2] I have been experimenting with the DATA URI and CSS on my own site: http://suda.co.uk/contact/ the resulting hcard has the PHOTO base64 encoded http://feeds.technorati.com/contact/http://suda.co.uk/contact PHOTO;ENCODING=b;TYPE=png:iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADIAAAAyCAMAAAA...... To hide the image from IE6/7 i am using the not() operator which is not suported to show it to advanced browsers which also support the DATA URI. #gravatar img.photo { display:none } #gravatar>img.photo:not([border]) { display:block } I hope this helps. -brian [1] - http://www.gmpg.org/xfn/and/ [2] - http://microformats.org/wiki/hcard-parsing -- brian suda http://suda.co.uk _______________________________________________ microformats-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss
