Hi everyone, I'm a front-end developer currently working on a high-visibility website that specializes in Food and Cooking. The team I am working with is very excited about implementing microformats.
One microformat we are going to be implementing is hRecipe -- a format-in-progress according to the wiki ( http://microformats.org/wiki/recipe-brainstorming). We will be using a variation of this draft and we want to put it forward for community digestion (pun intended). This is what we will be deploying at launch and we are open to suggestions to further the format: The recipe root container is class "hrecipe" The title of the recipe is required: "recipe-title" The recipe author will use the class "author" and be written as an hcard. "recipe-summary" indicates a container for any notes or information about the recipe, including "difficulty" "cook-time" "prep-time" (Preparation time) "wait-time" (i.e. Put these in the fridge overnight) "published" (date published) "yield" (serves how many?) The ingredients should be placed within "ingredients". Within "ingredients" are "ingredient" and that is further broken up into "quantity" (which contains "unit") and "item". An ingredient can also have a note, declared by class "note". An example of note is in a recipe that calls for an ingredient to be prepared a certain way: <ul class="ingredients"> <li class="ingredient"> <span class="quantity">4 <span class="unit">cups</span></span> <span class="note">sliced, peeled</span> <span class="item">peaches</span> </li> </ul> An ingredient with a class of "option" denotes an optional ingredient, otherwise it is to be considered a required ingredient for the recipe. A recipe MUST have at least one required ingredient, however "quantity" is not required. Furthermore, within "ingredient" you can also make a class of "alternate" and include "quantity" and "item" within that. So for example, you would want a tablespoon of butter that you could substitute for margarine you would say: <li class="ingredient"> <span class="quantity">1 <abbr class="unit" title="Tablespoon">tbsp</abbr></span> <span class="item">butter</span>. <div class="alternate"> <span class="quantity">1 <abbr class="unit" title="Tablespoon">tbsp</abbr></span> <span class="item">margarine</span>. </div> </li> After ingredients, "method" is the containing class for the directions of the recipe. This MUST be present. Furthermore, you can include an image with class "photo" to be used as an image of the recipe. Recipes can be tagged with rel=tag, and license information can be shown with rel=license. We will also be integrating hReview with our recipes. We hope that by settling on these conventions and moving forward, we can help propel the hRecipe format from a brainstorming session to an in-practice specification. Thanks, Mark Wunsch [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ microformats-discuss mailing list microformats-discuss@microformats.org http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss