On 9/3/07, Catherine Devlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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. > > ... > > Is there a better way? Should I not be doing it at all?
Think of it this way: do you want someone reading the page to be able to find the address of Joe's? If so, that address should not be hidden. The issue then becomes how to show the address without interrupting the narrative flow, not whether to show or hide it at all. One solution could be to put the full address for Joe's in a footnote and reference it in the post using the include-pattern. If the include-pattern is too confusing or doesn't work, you could just leave the full hCard in a footnote and leave it up to the user to realize "oh, there's a reference to a footnote after Joe's, and there's an hCard here, so that must be the hCard for Joe's." Thus, the full address is still visible to the user, regardless of what technology they use, without interrupting the post with unnecessary detail. _______________________________________________ microformats-discuss mailing list microformats-discuss@microformats.org http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss
