RE: [uf-discuss] Microformats and Firefox 3

2007-09-05 Thread Farndon, Tony

 2. Microformats are in page, and there needs to be some way 
 to indicate the microformats are available on the page that 
 doesn't offend page authors. How can we accomplish this?


I second the opinion that this is a design issue and therefore should be
handled by css in some way. This would fit into the web design paradigm
of markup for data, css for design. My slightly different css approach;
create custom css property:value pairs, such as that of
-moz-border-radius.

So some poor examples that give an idea (and would warrant derivation
from someone better than I): 

#hcard1 {
-moz-uf-hcard-display: block bottom; //instructs FF3 that the author
wishes ff3 to show an hcard icon after the hcard
-moz-uf-hcard-margin: 5px;
}

#hcard2 {
-moz-uf-hcard-display: block top; //author wants this icon to be at the
top to fit in with page design a little better
-moz-uf-map-display: block top; //author wants a view address map icon
as well
}

#hcard3 {
-moz-uf-hcard-display: none; //author wants this icon hidden 
}

.hcard {
-moz-uf-hcard-icon: icon(thenicesmallgreenicon); //all hcards have the
small green icon
}

.hcard:hover {
-moz-uf-hcard-menu: dropdown; //hovering the icon shows an action drop
down menu
}



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Re: [uf-discuss] Microformats and Firefox 3

2007-09-05 Thread Pelle W

Farndon, Tony skrev:
2. Microformats are in page, and there needs to be some way 
to indicate the microformats are available on the page that 
doesn't offend page authors. How can we accomplish this?


I second the opinion that this is a design issue and therefore should be
handled by css in some way. This would fit into the web design paradigm
of markup for data, css for design. My slightly different css approach;
create custom css property:value pairs, such as that of
-moz-border-radius.
If something should add anything it should be added by a javascript 
which the Firefox people may very well supply. To have CSS instructing 
Firefox to add something into the HTML-data seems wrong, it doesn't 
really separate the data and content from the design. If something 
should instruct anything to add new HTML-data to a document it has to be 
either the HTML itself or JavaScripts. CSS can be used to style what's 
added, but should do nothing more than that in my opinion because it's 
only purpose is to add a deisgn and if it's removed the page should work 
equally well - only not as beutiful as with the CSS added.


Let's just have a javascript like the one here below. If Firefox 
supplies a microformats object by default then all webpages can rely on 
that in Firefox it can easily be extended to add support for newer 
microformats like Prototype and other javascript frameworks today 
extends basic DOM-objects and such. If someone would like they could 
even code their own implementation of such a solution which can be used 
in other browsers than Firefox until those browsers adds support 
themselves either directly or indirectly through extensions.


script type=text/javascript
   if (typeof microformats.hcard == 'object') {
   // Add some actions to the page in any way, like this simple and 
bad way
   document.write('a href=# 
onclick=microfrmats.hcard.add(this.parentNode);Add to addressbook/a');

   }
/style

There are probably better arguments for choosing a solution like this 
over a CSS and/or HTML based solution, I hope someone more experienced 
than me can tell us some of them.


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RE: [uf-discuss] Microformats and Firefox 3

2007-09-05 Thread Farndon, Tony
 If something should add anything it should be added by a 
 javascript...

CSS is frequently used to *add* and place onto a page, be it a
background image, a border, etc

What I am saying is rather than add say, a background image, you use CSS
to add/place a microformat icon. How this icon behaves when you click on
it is designed by FF, what you are saying to the web designer is where
do you want this dropdown/menu/action/whatever container to appear, if
at all.

 If something should instruct 
 anything to add new HTML-data to a document it has to be 
 either the HTML itself or JavaScripts. 

This is where I have got confused over what this whole topic is this
about: the UI or adding actions (hence my reply was to point 2 from
Mike). My impression is that it is a UI issue of how you notify the user
that there is uf present, where it is on the page and what actions are
available, without stepping on the toes of the designer and the users
browsing experience.

This is a *design* issue which to me implies a css solution.

 There are probably better arguments for choosing a solution 
 like this over a CSS and/or HTML based solution, I hope 
 someone more experienced than me can tell us some of them.

There are of coarse many valid reasons for a non-js approach. How many
turn off, or control js with extensions compared to turning
off/controlling css?? I would wager less for the latter.

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Re: [uf-discuss] Microformats and Firefox 3

2007-09-05 Thread André Luís
Hello everyone.

Great work thus far.. just want to drop my 2cents.

1) I don't think Dimitri's text was very clear on this aspect in
particular, but I believe it would improve the UXP and still give
control to the publisher.

Why not mixing the suggestion of dimitry (which seems like a very
well-thought solution) with the CSS one:

- when the user hovers on the margin-mark, the user-agent should
'target' to the (root?) element (like what's done with the #anchor in
urls) and that would allow the publishers to specify the
looks/highlight accordingly. Like:

.vcard:target {
border:1px solid red;
}

or even
.vcard:target .actions{
visibility: visible;
}

(without constraining the publisher to a specific class name or element)


2) Also, should there be only ONE way of displaying uf content? or
should the user have an option? I believe the operator's default way
(toolbar) is also pretty darn good and should not be ignored or would
it go against/collide with the work Michael has been doing?


Cheers,
André Luís

On 9/5/07, Pelle W [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Farndon, Tony skrev:
  2. Microformats are in page, and there needs to be some way
  to indicate the microformats are available on the page that
  doesn't offend page authors. How can we accomplish this?
 
  I second the opinion that this is a design issue and therefore should be
  handled by css in some way. This would fit into the web design paradigm
  of markup for data, css for design. My slightly different css approach;
  create custom css property:value pairs, such as that of
  -moz-border-radius.
 If something should add anything it should be added by a javascript
 which the Firefox people may very well supply. To have CSS instructing
 Firefox to add something into the HTML-data seems wrong, it doesn't
 really separate the data and content from the design. If something
 should instruct anything to add new HTML-data to a document it has to be
 either the HTML itself or JavaScripts. CSS can be used to style what's
 added, but should do nothing more than that in my opinion because it's
 only purpose is to add a deisgn and if it's removed the page should work
 equally well - only not as beutiful as with the CSS added.

 Let's just have a javascript like the one here below. If Firefox
 supplies a microformats object by default then all webpages can rely on
 that in Firefox it can easily be extended to add support for newer
 microformats like Prototype and other javascript frameworks today
 extends basic DOM-objects and such. If someone would like they could
 even code their own implementation of such a solution which can be used
 in other browsers than Firefox until those browsers adds support
 themselves either directly or indirectly through extensions.

 script type=text/javascript
 if (typeof microformats.hcard == 'object') {
 // Add some actions to the page in any way, like this simple and
 bad way
 document.write('a href=#
 onclick=microfrmats.hcard.add(this.parentNode);Add to addressbook/a');
 }
 /style

 There are probably better arguments for choosing a solution like this
 over a CSS and/or HTML based solution, I hope someone more experienced
 than me can tell us some of them.

 / Pelle W
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RE: [uf-discuss] Microformats and Firefox 3

2007-09-05 Thread Farndon, Tony
To try and give where I am coming from some context, this is how I see
it all working in my head:

FF3 has a set of (3?) methods for alerting/displaying/provding actions
for uF

1) An Operator style toolbar
2) An Operator Style status icon
3) Within the content of the page (+1 and then some for dimitrys margins
approach, best I've seen yet, visible yet unobtrusive whilst still
provding some sort of location on the page display - aside: default next
to scrollbar, statisically more content on lefthand side of page)

Users can choose any or all of the three options. However, option 3
might well place something on a webpage that the designer feels strongly
against (for example a left navigation pane that keeps getting hidden by
the margin marker approach for people that prefer margin markers on the
left).

This is where you turn to css and a designer can simply declare

.vcard {
-moz-uf-display: none;
}

This tells FF3 NOT to display the margin markers for that page
regardless of whether the user has it on. This then allows the designer
to add his own uF icons.

Now onto actions. And this is where I like the protocol approach. As a
designer, you can turn off all the option 3 page uF icons as above, add
you own div/a/img etc eg a href=uf://export.hcardAdd to Address
Book/a

In 4 simple lines, you have told FF3 to stop adding stuff over your
page, given the control of the action to yourself and where it appears.

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Re: [uf-discuss] Microformats and Firefox 3

2007-09-05 Thread Jason Karns
On 9/5/07, André Luís [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Hello everyone.

 - when the user hovers on the margin-mark, the user-agent should
 'target' to the (root?) element (like what's done with the #anchor in
 urls) and that would allow the publishers to specify the
 looks/highlight accordingly. Like:

 .vcard:target {
 border:1px solid red;
 }

 or even
 .vcard:target .actions{
 visibility: visible;
 }

 (without constraining the publisher to a specific class name or element)


I agree with many of the previous sentiments.  Dimitri's mockups are
an excellent idea and I also think it would be great to style the uf
targets via CSS :target as suggested by André.  I would just like to
suggest we keep in mind the way Tails Export displays the available
microformats on a page.  As opposed to Operator (which is an
invaluable tool) which uses perhaps too much menu nesting, I feel the
sidebar is the perfect place to organize this type of content.
Coupled with Dimitri's margin-marks, we could have a winner.

Jason

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Re: [uf-discuss] Microformats and Firefox 3

2007-09-05 Thread Dimitri Glazkov
Thanks for the comments on the margin-marks concept. I sincerely
appreciate that.

I really like the idea of allowing additional control over
presentation via pseudo-classes, but I am worried that :target isn't
quite right, at least if we follow the spec to the letter
(http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-selectors/#target-pseudo), specifically
since this pseudo-class is not dynamic and there may or may not be a
fragment identifier on the microformat.

Can :focus be used somehow instead? This would require an element to
accept keyboard or mouse focus, though...

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RE: [uf-discuss] Microformats and Firefox 3

2007-09-05 Thread Farndon, Tony
 Thanks for the comments on the margin-marks concept. I 
 sincerely appreciate that.

Credit where credit is due!
 
 I really like the idea of allowing additional control over 
 presentation via pseudo-classes, but I am worried that 
 :target isn't quite right, at least if we follow the spec to 
 the letter 
 (http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-selectors/#target-pseudo), 
 specifically since this pseudo-class is not dynamic and there 
 may or may not be a fragment identifier on the microformat.

I have no interpretation of this I'm afraid. I would say that no
solution should break css specs, even ever so slightly. 

Does *adding* to css break spec compliance Eg .vcard:uftarget or
-moz-whatever ?? (if so, scrap everything I said in my previous posts!)

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Re: [uf-discuss] Microformats and Firefox 3

2007-09-05 Thread André Luís
Dimitri,

That was exactly why I suggested :target instead of :focus. I think
ufs shouldn't _require_ links or other focus-eable elements. And I'm
with you with the worries on pushing the meaning of the spec... is
there a more meaningful alternative I don't know about?

And I'm with Tony (and others) on the protocol approach. My concern
is: how do we keep the actions standard? The user-agent must be able
to recognize it so we can't have some of us publishing export.hcard
and others save.hcard. An API would be nice.

Also, don't forget about languages. If it's up to the user agent to
insert action buttons it's imperative that all languages are
supported. It would be so not-cool to have a page in mandarin sporting
action-buttons in english, don't you think?

Cheers,
André Luís

On 9/5/07, Dimitri Glazkov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Thanks for the comments on the margin-marks concept. I sincerely
 appreciate that.

 I really like the idea of allowing additional control over
 presentation via pseudo-classes, but I am worried that :target isn't
 quite right, at least if we follow the spec to the letter
 (http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-selectors/#target-pseudo), specifically
 since this pseudo-class is not dynamic and there may or may not be a
 fragment identifier on the microformat.

 Can :focus be used somehow instead? This would require an element to
 accept keyboard or mouse focus, though...

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Re: [uf-discuss] Firefox 3 Javascript Semantic Data UI Control (was: Microformats and Firefox 3)

2007-09-05 Thread Manu Sporny
Dimitri Glazkov wrote:
 I really like the idea of allowing additional control over
 presentation via pseudo-classes, but I am worried that :target isn't
 quite right, at least if we follow the spec to the letter
 (http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-selectors/#target-pseudo), specifically
 since this pseudo-class is not dynamic and there may or may not be a
 fragment identifier on the microformat.

There is another option available. Songbird has released a specification
for a Javascript object that can be used to control some of the
functionality in the browser.

http://developer.songbirdnest.com/documentation/trunk/webpageapi/files/sbIRemotePlayer-idl.html

Operator/Firefox could provide something along the same lines to allow
publishers to disable the browser UI and provide their own via CSS.

Here's how it could work:

The SemanticDataUI object would be accessible, from Javascript, using
the “semanticDataUI” global variable attached to the currently loaded
document. A publisher could disable the semantic data UI in any browser
by running the following line of Javascript:

semanticDataUI.disableUI();

Users could control whether or not they allow web pages to disable the
Semantic Data UI. Most would probably allow web pages to disable the
semantic data UI.

Publishers could manually disable the Semantic Data UI and use CSS to
mark up their hCards, hCalendars, and hAudios.

This would give cross-browser UI control to both the users and the
publishers without having to do any CSS magic.

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Re: [uf-discuss] Firefox 3 Javascript Semantic Data UI Control

2007-09-05 Thread Pelle W

Manu Sporny wrote:

Dimitri Glazkov wrote:
  

I really like the idea of allowing additional control over
presentation via pseudo-classes, but I am worried that :target isn't
quite right, at least if we follow the spec to the letter
(http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-selectors/#target-pseudo), specifically
since this pseudo-class is not dynamic and there may or may not be a
fragment identifier on the microformat.


The SemanticDataUI object would be accessible, from Javascript, using
the “semanticDataUI” global variable attached to the currently loaded
document. A publisher could disable the semantic data UI in any browser
by running the following line of Javascript:

semanticDataUI.disableUI();

Users could control whether or not they allow web pages to disable the
Semantic Data UI. Most would probably allow web pages to disable the
semantic data UI.

Publishers could manually disable the Semantic Data UI and use CSS to
mark up their hCards, hCalendars, and hAudios.

This would give cross-browser UI control to both the users and the
publishers without having to do any CSS magic.
Interesting! Perhaps semanticData.ui.disable() instead and have 
functions like semanticData.getDataById and other DOM-like functions and 
when you have some data you have fooDataObject.action() or something and 
fooDataObject.dataType just like nodeType exists in DOM etc.


Something like a SDOM (SemanticDataObjectModel) standard?

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RE: [uf-discuss] Microformats and Firefox 3

2007-09-05 Thread Farndon, Tony
 And I'm with Tony (and others) on the protocol approach. 

I should, however, add that I do have one concern about the protocol
approach; it does not degrade gracefully. Users of FF2, or IE7 or Safari
etc will just get a big old unknown protocol error.

This is easily countered by the designer checking for the navigator with
js or using !--[if IE] and hiding the protocol actions element, but
this of course requires extra work on their part.

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Re: [uf-discuss] Microformats and Firefox 3

2007-09-05 Thread Pelle W

Farndon, Tony wrote:
And I'm with Tony (and others) on the protocol approach. 


I should, however, add that I do have one concern about the protocol
approach; it does not degrade gracefully. Users of FF2, or IE7 or Safari
etc will just get a big old unknown protocol error.

This is easily countered by the designer checking for the navigator with
js or using !--[if IE] and hiding the protocol actions element, but
this of course requires extra work on their part.

T.
That issue could perhaps be solved by either browser extensions or 
separate programs with similar roles as feed readers has for RSS.
It would perhaps not be too mad of an idea to have Thunderbird or 
something taking care of the microformats for such browsers since 
Thunderbird and such programs have greater use of the data contained in 
the microformats. Like the hCard into Thunderbirds addressbook and the 
hCalendars into the Lightning extension.


Alex Faaborg wrote a clever mail about this earlier and presented a few 
issues and a few possibilites related to protocols. It was then 
discussed that perhaps there should be one protocl for each microformat? 
That would if so enable different programs to easily take care of 
different microformats.


You'll find Faaborg's mail here (is this the usual way to share an older 
mail on a mailing list or how is more common?):

http://microformats.org/discuss/mail/microformats-discuss/2007-August/010536.html

/ Pelle W

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RE: [uf-discuss] Microformats and Firefox 3

2007-09-05 Thread Farndon, Tony
 Alex Faaborg wrote a clever mail about this earlier and 
 presented a few issues and a few possibilites related to 
 protocols. It was then discussed that perhaps there should be 
 one protocl for each microformat? 
 That would if so enable different programs to easily take 
 care of different microformats.
 
 You'll find Faaborg's mail here (is this the usual way to 
 share an older mail on a mailing list or how is more common?):
 http://microformats.org/discuss/mail/microformats-discuss/2007
 -August/010536.html

Yes, apologies, I do lurk on this list, but sometimes it is just too
overwhelming so sit back and watch. Am up for posting today, so probably
repeating whats been said before.

Just browsed the archives a bit and quite like Scott's approach of ul
class=user-actionslia
href=http://mozilla.org/add_to_address_book;...

Instead of a protocol, FF could intercept this url. Rather than opening
up a webpage, it carries out the action. It degrades better so that
FF2/IE/Safari users are directed to an actual page describing
microformats in Firefox 3 rather than receiving an unknown protocol
error. Easy to add plugins/extensions to these other browsers to
intercept the url as well.

One might want to use a browser agnostic url though.


So FF3 intercepts the url click of an href of
http://actions.microformats.org?q=add-to-address-book, stops the
propogation if appropriate, grabs the q param, looks for the parent
container and adds it to the addressbook. Other browsers will be
directed and get to read a nice page describing hcards and how you can
add them to an address book as vcards using FF3/IE with this plugin/FF2
with Operator 0.9/Safari with that plugin if ever Apple create a decent
plugin architecture etc.

If not in the parent hcard container, add another param for the hcard
id, this would allow you to put actions anywhere on your page and FF can
assess the url to say, ok, this is a uF action, you want to add to the
address book, and it is that hcard, ok.

http://actions.microformats.org?q=add-to-address-bookid=hcard-id
http://actions.microformats.org?q=map-addressid=hcard-id
http://actions.microformats.org?q=add-to-calendarid=hcal-id

Similar to the way RSS feeds are handled in FF2/3 by choosing live
boookmark, google reader, bloglines etc, a pref pane decides what
happens, is it added to thunderbird contacts, some address book website
etc

That's enough repeating from me today.

T.

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[uf-discuss] Re: Need for plain-language intros for each microformat

2007-09-05 Thread Toby A Inkster
Tantek =?ISO-8859-1?B?xw==?=elik wrote:

 Syntactically the URI would still work, however, semantically it would have
 been broken, that is, it is bad to not only change URIs so that they 404 and
 just plain don't work, but it is also bad to change the *meaning* of that
 URI.

As long as there is a clear link to the specification from the
explanation, then I disagree that it's really changed the meaning
of the link target.

If I were to add a link today like:

pYou can read the a href=http://microformats.org/wiki/hCard;
hCard specification/a for more information./p

and tomorrow that page were replaced by an introductory page, I doubt I'd
want to change the link. People visiting my page could still click on the
link and would find the specification, albeit indirectly.

The real danger is with #fragment identifiers. :-(

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Re: [uf-discuss] Re: Need for plain-language intros for each microformat

2007-09-05 Thread Ben Ward

On 5 Sep 2007, at 20:18, Toby A Inkster wrote:
Syntactically the URI would still work, however, semantically it  
would have
been broken, that is, it is bad to not only change URIs so that  
they 404 and
just plain don't work, but it is also bad to change the *meaning*  
of that

URI.


As long as there is a clear link to the specification from the
explanation, then I disagree that it's really changed the meaning
of the link target.


Whilst the ‘meaning’ in terms of microformats.org/wiki/hcard being a  
page about hCard would still be valid, the context in which that URL  
is used by publishers on the internet. Tutorials may link to the  
entire page accompanied by the text ‘read the hCard specification’,  
whilst other pieces could be linking to fragment identifiers within  
the page to reference a specific part of the spec.


As such, I also oppose that the specifications be moved from the  
current root locations. Potentially we could agree that future  
specifications include ‘-spec’ in the URL, but current URLs and  
content IDs need to remain the same.


I would move that plain text ‘-info’ pieces be written for each spec  
and an introductory paragraph from each be placed at the top of each  
spec to more accessibly introduce the document, with a link to the  
‘All about hCard’ page.


Regards,

Ben
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Re: [uf-discuss] Re: Need for plain-language intros for each microformat

2007-09-05 Thread Scott Reynen

On Sep 5, 2007, at 2:34 PM, Ben Ward wrote:

Syntactically the URI would still work, however, semantically it  
would have
been broken, that is, it is bad to not only change URIs so that  
they 404 and
just plain don't work, but it is also bad to change the *meaning*  
of that

URI.


As long as there is a clear link to the specification from the
explanation, then I disagree that it's really changed the meaning
of the link target.


Whilst the ‘meaning’ in terms of microformats.org/wiki/hcard being  
a page about hCard would still be valid, the context in which that  
URL is used by publishers on the internet. Tutorials may link to  
the entire page accompanied by the text ‘read the hCard  
specification’, whilst other pieces could be linking to fragment  
identifiers within the page to reference a specific part of the spec.


I think if we all take a step back we'll find this tangent is rather  
pointless.  Two proposals have been made: 1) change the current root  
pages to be intros and create new -spec pages or 2) leave the specs  
where they are and create new -intro pages.  I've seen a few people  
object to #1 and no one object to #2.  So why not just do #2?  Does  
anyone actually think creating -intro pages is a bad idea?  It seems  
like we're just debating #1 for the sake of debating.


Peace,
Scott


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[uf-discuss] Re: Need for plain-language intros for each microformat

2007-09-05 Thread Andy Mabbett
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Scott 
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or 2) leave the specs  where they are and create new -intro pages.

I've seen [...] no one object to #2.

Then you haven't been paying full attention.

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