On 4 Apr 2008, at 01:23, Gordon Oheim wrote:
I have added a preliminary draft for a possible jCard specification
to the wiki at http://microformats.org/wiki/jcard.
The content is based on what I read from the discussion list so far.
The intention was to have a reference for further discussion and for
solidifying a candidate for a jCard standard.
Hi,
This is great work, and it's something that I found a number of
developers asking about during South By South West. I think it was
Glenn Jones suggesting that we're now at a point with parser maturity
that some thought needs to be given to having interoperable JSON
structures.
I have two points of initial followup, one with my admin hat on, the
other without.
1. ADMIN: This discussion should probably take place on the
microformats-dev mailing list, rather than -discuss. It should come to
the attention of all parser developers that way, and hopefully stay
focused on this very parser-centric work. I've cross posted this
thread to [EMAIL PROTECTED]; please continue the
development discussion there.
2. In my view: I'm totally supportive and in favour of this work, I
think ‘jCard’ is a bad name for it; I think this work would be better
presented connected to the hCard specification itself — and future
equivalents for the other microformats too. Whether that end up as an
‘Object Model’ section of the relevant specs, or new documents (e.g.
hcard-object-model). It doesn't need it's own, separate format name;
it's really further specifying hcard itself.
What's more, whilst JSON is the obvious driver technology for this
work, I think it would make more sense to produce an implementation-
agnostic Object Model that would work in JSON, XML, YML or whatever
other transport people might want to implement for. I think it's
unlikely we'd want to specify ‘jCard’, ‘xCard’, ‘yCard’ and so on…)
Please forgive my poor wiki editing skills and feel free to add to
the page.
The page is off to a great start! Keep it up.
Thanks,
Ben
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