Alex Faaborg wrote: > Yes, while previous Firefox designs have focused on the browser > injecting UI into the page, this discussion is about how the content > creator should provide links and buttons for acting on microformatted > content.
I'm probably being a bit dense, but it looks like we're entering into a philosophical debate. Without taking sides, it looks like the philosophical rift is this: Side A: Publishers should be able to specify UI elements for their Microformatted content in their HTML. Side B: The browser should be solely responsible for injecting UI into the page? This debate has been tracked on the wiki: http://microformats.org/wiki/audio-info-issues#Historical:_Graphic_buttons_in_rel-patterns The current resolution is to leave implementation for user actions up to the browser and uF plug-ins. Without going into the nasty details, which are fully documented on the wiki, there is opposition to directly specifying UI through uF markup. Microformats are about data, not UI. That being said, if there is a desire to add generic UI actions to any sort of semantic data (keep in mind eRDF and RDFa), the one idea that seems to be most compatible with "Microformats are about data" but able to give the publishers of any semantic data some control over the UI is the "uf:// protocol idea". Perhaps a generic set of "actions" that are defined by all semantic data communities (uF, eRDF, RDFa, etc.). The assumption is that some sort of ID mechanism is utilized. So for data like this: <div id='alex-faaborg' class='vcard'>...</div> Something like the following: <a href="action://addressbook/add/alex-faaborg">Add to address book</a> <a href="action://addressbook/mail/alex-faaborg">E-mail Alex</a> Here are some other examples: action://map/find/eiffel-tower action:// The above mechanism would allow people to specify default behaviors for actions. Some could specify that "action://map/" is handled by Yahoo Maps, while others might choose Google Maps or Microsoft Streets and Trips. It is important that the Firefox developers not only think of Microformats, but eRDF, RDFa, and other semantic markup technologies that are coming down the pipeline. -- manu _______________________________________________ microformats-discuss mailing list microformats-discuss@microformats.org http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss
