Re: [uf-discuss] What does the 'h' in microformats mean?
Thanks all for your response to this question some of it was quite surprising particularly Tobys, H is for Horatio from CSI , I have never heard of that great stuff. A quick recap h in microformats means: 1 the HTML version of or just HTML 2 The Greek letter micro μ (Mu) inverted 3 In hAtom, it the Irish pronunciation of h next to a vowel which is softly spoken with a strong spoken A as in hay (is this correct David?) 4 The H from Horatio Cain Thanks again Martin ___ microformats-discuss mailing list microformats-discuss@microformats.org http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss
Re: [uf-discuss] What does the 'h' in microformats mean?
On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 9:54 AM, Martin McEvoymar...@weborganics.co.uk wrote: 1 the HTML version of or just HTML 2 The Greek letter micro μ (Mu) inverted 3 In hAtom, it the Irish pronunciation of h next to a vowel which is softly spoken with a strong spoken A as in hay (is this correct David?) 4 The H from Horatio Cain discuss It'd depend on which bay you call home, but I'd use the a sound from dad [1] Regards, etc... [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newfoundland_English ___ microformats-discuss mailing list microformats-discuss@microformats.org http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss
Re: [uf-discuss] What does the 'h' in microformats mean?
On 09.07.09 10:15, Martin McEvoy mar...@weborganics.co.uk wrote: Hello all I wander if anyone can tell me what the 'h' in microformats means? I have always thought 'h' was for 'hypertext' but could it mean 'hypermedia' or even 'html' perhaps it means nothing? my guess: it stands for that certain greek letter that's hard to describe because it's not on the average keyboard, pronounced mü or miu, common shortcut for micro. that letter, vertically reflected, looks like an h. just a guess, but convincing enough that i stopped bothering :-) thomas . Thomas Lörtsch Gruner+Jahr, Hamburg, Germany ... eMail: loertsch.tho...@guj.de - 07/2009 08/2009 - tho...@stray.net ___ microformats-discuss mailing list microformats-discuss@microformats.org http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss
Re: [uf-discuss] What does the 'h' in microformats mean?
2009/7/9 Thomas Loertsch loertsch.tho...@guj.de: On 09.07.09 10:15, Martin McEvoy mar...@weborganics.co.uk wrote: Hello all I wander if anyone can tell me what the 'h' in microformats means? I have always thought 'h' was for 'hypertext' but could it mean 'hypermedia' or even 'html' perhaps it means nothing? my guess: it stands for that certain greek letter that's hard to describe because it's not on the average keyboard, pronounced mü or miu, common shortcut for micro. that letter, vertically reflected, looks like an h. just a guess, but convincing enough that i stopped bothering :-) thomas h stands for whatever you want it to be! *airy fairy disney movie*. It's html. Think, this is this thing, represented in html. -- Frances Berriman http://fberriman.com ___ microformats-discuss mailing list microformats-discuss@microformats.org http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss
Re: [uf-discuss] What does the 'h' in microformats mean?
Martin, it really doesn't matter that much but from hcard wiki page: hCard is a simple, open, distributed format for representing people, companies, organizations, and places, using a 1:1 representation of vCard (RFC2426) properties and values in semantic HTML or XHTML. hCard is one of several open microformat standards suitable for embedding in HTML, XHTML, Atom, RSS, and arbitrary XML. The h is used both in html and xhtml and it means the same thing, obviously. So I'd always thought it meant hypertext... but really, 'tis only a tiny detail. :) Still, I get asked this frequently in training sessions. That and wtf does FN stand for? Formatted name is not the first that springs to their mind... :) Cheers, -- André Luís On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 11:45 AM, Thomas Loertschloertsch.tho...@guj.de wrote: On 09.07.09 10:15, Martin McEvoy mar...@weborganics.co.uk wrote: Hello all I wander if anyone can tell me what the 'h' in microformats means? I have always thought 'h' was for 'hypertext' but could it mean 'hypermedia' or even 'html' perhaps it means nothing? my guess: it stands for that certain greek letter that's hard to describe because it's not on the average keyboard, pronounced mü or miu, common shortcut for micro. that letter, vertically reflected, looks like an h. just a guess, but convincing enough that i stopped bothering :-) thomas . Thomas Lörtsch Gruner+Jahr, Hamburg, Germany ... eMail: loertsch.tho...@guj.de - 07/2009 08/2009 - tho...@stray.net ___ microformats-discuss mailing list microformats-discuss@microformats.org http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss ___ microformats-discuss mailing list microformats-discuss@microformats.org http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss
Re: [uf-discuss] What does the 'h' in microformats mean?
On 09.07.09 10:15, Martin McEvoy mar...@weborganics.co.uk wrote: Hello all I wander if anyone can tell me what the 'h' in microformats means? I have always thought 'h' was for 'hypertext' but could it mean 'hypermedia' or even 'html' It's in the microformats FAQ :) http://microformats.org/wiki/faq#Q._What_is_the_.27h.27_for.2C_in_front_of_Calendar_and_Card.3F As the inventor+namer of hCalendar and hCard[1] (the first use of the lowercase 'h' prefix convention), I can tell you that the 'h' stands for the HTML version of, in those cases, of iCalendar and vCard respectively. Sometime after the fact (at least a few years ago, before it came up again in this thread), someone else posited (maybe Rohit?) that the h looked like an upside down greek letter mu µ which is used in scientific notation to mean micro - but that was purely a coincidence. Tantek [1] http://tantek.com/log/2004/09.html#d30t1725 ___ microformats-discuss mailing list microformats-discuss@microformats.org http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss
Re: [uf-discuss] What does the 'h' in microformats mean?
On Thu, 2009-07-09 at 09:15 +0100, Martin McEvoy wrote: I wander if anyone can tell me what the 'h' in microformats means? hAtom, hCard, hCalendar, hReview etc are all named after the character Horatio H Caine from the popular police procedural television series CSI: Miami. -- Toby A Inkster mailto:m...@tobyinkster.co.uk http://tobyinkster.co.uk ___ microformats-discuss mailing list microformats-discuss@microformats.org http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss
Re: [uf-discuss] What does the 'h' in microformats mean?
Actually, the h in hAtom comes from the preferred way we Irish-descended Newfoundlanders prefer to pronounce words beginning with a vowel sound -- i.e. you should be saying it as two syllables, not three ;-) Regards, etc... On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 10:46 AM, Toby Inkster m...@tobyinkster.co.uk wrote: On Thu, 2009-07-09 at 09:15 +0100, Martin McEvoy wrote: I wander if anyone can tell me what the 'h' in microformats means? hAtom, hCard, hCalendar, hReview etc are all named after the character Horatio H Caine from the popular police procedural television series CSI: Miami. -- Toby A Inkster mailto:m...@tobyinkster.co.uk http://tobyinkster.co.uk ___ microformats-discuss mailing list microformats-discuss@microformats.org http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss ___ microformats-discuss mailing list microformats-discuss@microformats.org http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss
RE: [uf-discuss] What does the 'h' in microformats mean?
I thought that was the case. You know, there is a remarkable similarity between Horatio and Tantek. They are probably mistaken for each other all the time. Ted -Original Message- From: microformats-discuss-boun...@microformats.org [mailto:microformats-discuss-boun...@microformats.org] On Behalf Of Toby Inkster Sent: Thursday, July 09, 2009 4:46 PM To: Microformats Discuss Subject: Re: [uf-discuss] What does the 'h' in microformats mean? On Thu, 2009-07-09 at 09:15 +0100, Martin McEvoy wrote: I wander if anyone can tell me what the 'h' in microformats means? hAtom, hCard, hCalendar, hReview etc are all named after the character Horatio H Caine from the popular police procedural television series CSI: Miami. -- Toby A Inkster mailto:m...@tobyinkster.co.uk http://tobyinkster.co.uk ___ microformats-discuss mailing list microformats-discuss@microformats.org http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss ___ microformats-discuss mailing list microformats-discuss@microformats.org http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss
