Tom I totally agree!
---- Tony Scott http://tonyscott.org.uk | http://uk.wordcamp.org ----- Original Message ---- > From: Tom Morris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Microformats Discuss <[email protected]> > Sent: Thursday, 4 December, 2008 0:08:11 > Subject: Re: [uf-discuss] .tel > > On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 16:58, Tim White wrote: > > Has anyone seen the upcoming .tel domains (http://telnic.org/)? Seems > > like a perfect spot for hCard. > > > > 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. > > 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 _______________________________________________ microformats-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss
