On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 1:53 AM, Ben Ward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi everyone. > > The value-excerption-pattern is an attempt to fully spec the class="value" > behaviour from "tel" in hCard, which has since been supported globally in > some parsers for a while, and has proved somewhat useful. In addition to > fully spec'ing the behaviour for parsing class="value" elements for visible > data, I've been working on additional specification to handle inclusion of > machine-centric data alongside human forms > (http://microformats.org/wiki/machine-data). > > It's this machine-centic portion that I'm trying to nail down at the moment, > since it would provide an in-demand solution for various recurring > complaints (abbr-pattern dependencies, for example). > > Also, note that recent brainstorming regarding patterns dervice from the > semantics of the <object> element and value excerption has shown that > current, in-use browsers (Microsoft Internet Explorer and Apple's Safari 2) > do not handle object acceptably for inline content > (http://microformats.org/wiki/value-excerption-pattern-brainstorming#object_param_handling). > So we're definitely stuck with needing to spec this pattern using generic > mark-up. > (http://microformats.org/wiki/value-excerption-pattern-brainstorming#object_param_handling)
I agree, gathering feedback on both existing value excerption pattern behavior and new value excerption handling brainstorms/proposals, and resolving issues, is a very important next step in improving nearly all class-based microformats. One document organizational point: We should move all brainstormed/proposed additions to the value excerption pattern to the brainstorming page: http://microformats.org/wiki/value-excerption-pattern-brainstorming And then evaluate them all for inclusion in an iteration of the value excerption pattern itself, rather than evaluate them just one at a time. > Since it's been a while, this mail serves to summarise the current state of > this spec and proposed resolutions to open issues. PLEASE, if you have > additional issues to raise, add them to the wiki page > (http://microformats.org/wiki/value-excerption-pattern-issues#Parsing_title_from_Empty_value_Elements) Since this is an *addition* to current value excerption behavior, I think the documentation of the addition should first be moved to: http://microformats.org/wiki/value-excerption-pattern-brainstorming And then issues documented with the proposal inline there. Thanks, Tantek -- http://tantek.com/ _______________________________________________ microformats-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss
