On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 3:01 PM, Martin McEvoy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Scott Reynen wrote: >> >> On [Nov 15], at [ Nov 15] 9:07 , Martin McEvoy wrote: >> >>>> This is not a discussion of formats, it's a discussion of what people >>>> do. How can you discuss creating a microformat if you're not >>>> discussing what people are doing? >>>> >>> >>> I cant answer that David, the discussion needs to be consolidated and >>> re-thought (the same as this discussion was) >> >> >> I suggest everyone go back and re-examine (and potentially re-state) their >> proposals in terms of how they address the problem statement for the >> collected examples. That common ground seems to have been largely lost in >> this discussion. It's easy to start talking around an assumed definition of >> something as common as a comment, but it's crucial to stay focused on real >> world examples. > > I and Sarven are both staying on topic ie: "a comment" and are just focusing > on the "real world" examples > >> Before proposing markup for nested comments, we should look at examples to >> see if that's a common pattern. Before proposing markup for links back to >> the source, we should look at the examples to see if such links commonly >> exist. Maybe everyone has already done this, but it's hard to tell. >> Knowing how our own proposals are based in the examples is not enough; for >> this collaborative effort, we need to explain the connections to everyone >> else. > > Please do not make any proposals towards a nested comment, as this is "off > topic" > > the topic is "a comment" (singular)
Well then you don't need to do anything: hAtom - "a microformat for content that can be syndicated, primarily but not exclusively weblog postings" [1] - is sufficient and complete to cover "a comment". If you're interested in showing the relationship between "a comment" and what-is-being-commented-on, I opened every single example in comment-examples [2] and every single one (excepting Haloscan, which seem to be utterly isolated from posting context) uses document structure to show the relationship. None that I noticed had a A.href link that a "rel-in-reply-to" could be hung on to. Regards, etc... [1] http://microformats.org/wiki/hatom [2] http://microformats.org/wiki/comment-examples -- David Janes Mercenary Programmer http://code.davidjanes.com _______________________________________________ microformats-new mailing list [email protected] http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-new
