On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 16:58, Tim White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Has anyone seen the upcoming .tel domains (http://telnic.org/)? Seems > like a perfect spot for hCard. >
<div class="rant personal-opinion">The whole thing is highly idiotic and if there's any justice in the world, it'll completely fail and become the butt of jokes for years to come. If we can steer people towards using hCard, geo and other open solutions, that would be far preferable to a poorly thought-out system. Telephony is more like a protocol than a domain. Can you imagine .email, .irc, .rss or .ssh TLDs? It's that stupid.</div> People should just put a representative hCard on their homepage and then have a thing to parse it out and dial it. I've been meaning to build a JavaME thing to do this for my phone, so I can fire up my phone, type a domain name and have the phone dial it automatically. Imagine "starbucks.tel" - what number will it return via DNS? Presumably a corporate number. But if you designed the main site right, you could have it so that a person could use subdomains or directories to get the relevant branches: chicago.starbucks.com (or starbucks.com/chicago) could return a page full of hCards with addresses for branches in that city. Then build the client software for the phones which would be able to look for phone numbers on websites and then call them or add them to the address book. This kind of thing is far more useful in my opinion. -- Tom Morris http://tommorris.org/ _______________________________________________ microformats-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss
