Hi, everybody! I'm a new enthusiast to the Microformats world. I volunteered to present them to our Web Standards meetup ( http://webstandards.meetup.com/122/ ), and now I'm frantically devouring the uF book and making slides.
One question I haven't seen addressed is whether it's considered good practice to hide information from the as-displayed webpage while including it in the microformat. For instance, I may be making a chatty, informal blog entry - "We're gonna meet at noon this Wednesday over tacos at Joe's". I want to make it a full, rich hCalendar entry for those who actually want to pull down a vCard for Joe's, yet I don't want to break up the chatty, informal flow of my narrative-style post by visibly including a lot of detail - Joe's zip code, etc. I'm imagining doing this by including tags like span class="street-address" title="123 1st street" style="display:none" A live example is at http://catherinedevlin.blogspot.com/2007/08/microformats-talk.html (yes, I passed up an opportunity to embed an hReview there - I'm just starting) Is there a better way? Should I not be doing it at all? the uF book mentions that one reason for the demise of META tags is that, since they are invisible, they are rarely properly maintained - that's one cause for doubt. Yet it seems like there ought to be a way to do this. After all, one of the things I love about microformats is that they don't impose restrictions on what you write and how you write it - they can go anywhere HTML can go. Thanks for your thoughts, -- - Catherine http://catherinedevlin.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ microformats-discuss mailing list microformats-discuss@microformats.org http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss
