Re: [uf-discuss] Re: Software Projects Description

2006-10-11 Thread Ryan King
On Oct 9, 2006, at 7:06 PM, Karl Dubost wrote: Le 06-10-10 à 10:19, Lachlan Hunt a écrit : Torrents are useful in this respect, because the hash checks are done as part of the process without any effort from the user. You just gave the answers where some metadata should stay hidden. I

[uf-discuss] uf-dev ( was Idea: beginners/getting started list)

2006-10-11 Thread Ryan King
On Oct 10, 2006, at 6:47 PM, Chris Messina wrote: The -dev list has been pretty dead since June Well, that's not the fault of the list, but the moderators (myself included). We've had a policy of only allowing people who have implementations (parsers and such) to join the list. We

Re: [uf-discuss] First version of Currency proposal

2006-10-11 Thread Guillaume Lebleu
King Chung Huang wrote: Is currency unit intended to be one whole name or two names? My intention is to have 2 class names, one for the currency (ex. U.S. currency), and one for the unit within that currency (ex. Dollar, Cent). unit is optional, b/c most currencies have a default unit

Re: [uf-discuss] uf-dev ( was Idea: beginners/getting started list)

2006-10-11 Thread Scott Reynen
On Oct 11, 2006, at 12:51 PM, Ryan King wrote: We've had a policy of only allowing people who have implementations (parsers and such) to join the list. We haven't been good at following up on people's requests to join the list. We currently have more than 100 people in the queue and the

Re: [uf-discuss] First version of Currency proposal

2006-10-11 Thread Scott Reynen
On Oct 11, 2006, at 1:18 PM, Guillaume Lebleu wrote: My intention is to have 2 class names, one for the currency (ex. U.S. currency), and one for the unit within that currency (ex. Dollar, Cent). unit is optional, b/c most currencies have a default unit (Dollar in the case of the U.S.

Re: [uf-discuss] First version of Currency proposal

2006-10-11 Thread Guillaume Lebleu
Scott Reynen wrote: Specifically, I don't think it makes sense to have the first abbr tag with no title, and the second abbr with no content. It looks like you're trying to communicate three different pieces of information when only two are really being published. Thank you for the

Re: [uf-discuss] First version of Currency proposal

2006-10-11 Thread Scott Reynen
On Oct 11, 2006, at 2:43 PM, Guillaume Lebleu wrote: Can we just treat everything as the default unit Not sure what you mean in the context of the 99c example. The default unit for the US currency is the Dollar, not the Cent, but in the context of the 99c context, we need to ensure that

Re: [uf-discuss] First version of Currency proposal

2006-10-11 Thread Andy Mabbett
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Guillaume Lebleu [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Please find it at: http://microformats.org/wiki/currency-proposal How does this relate to the proposal in: http://microformats.org/wiki/currency-brainstorming#Straw_man_proposal It doesn't even seem to link to the page on

Re: [uf-discuss] First version of Currency proposal

2006-10-11 Thread Guillaume Lebleu
Scott Reynen wrote: What I'm suggesting is that everything be treated as dollars in USD and everything be treated as Yen in JPY. Isn't that how most applications and people deal with money anyway? I think this will indeed work in most cases. There are some examples on the Web that make use

[uf-discuss] Currency microformat most important features quickpoll

2006-10-11 Thread Guillaume Lebleu
Hello, I thought that to expand feedback on the Currency proposal, a simple poll would be nice, so here it is: http://www.vizu.com/poll-vote.html?n=15067 Note: choices are randomly ordered. Looking forward to your participation. Guillaume ___

Re: [uf-discuss] uf-dev ( was Idea: beginners/getting started list)

2006-10-11 Thread Ryan King
On Oct 11, 2006, at 11:44 AM, Scott Reynen wrote: On Oct 11, 2006, at 12:51 PM, Ryan King wrote: We've had a policy of only allowing people who have implementations (parsers and such) to join the list. We haven't been good at following up on people's requests to join the list. We

Re: [uf-discuss] First version of Currency proposal

2006-10-11 Thread Scott Reynen
On Oct 11, 2006, at 4:13 PM, Guillaume Lebleu wrote: There are some examples on the Web that make use of cents, and my design philosophy with this proposal was to make simple things simple to microformat, and complex things possible to microformat, without requiring publishers to change

Re: [uf-discuss] First version of Currency proposal

2006-10-11 Thread Guillaume Lebleu
Scott Reynen wrote: So which of these tasks should we aim to make simple? I'd say the latter, because it's far more common (well over 80%, I think). I think we agree here. $99 is more common than 99c, so the former should be simpler to microformat than the latter. Where it seems we differ in

Re: [uf-discuss] Threaded Comments

2006-10-11 Thread David Janes
This will be an excellent time to mention, for the purposes of FYI to all, the Atom Threading extensions [1]. Someone else can jump in and mention The Process. Regards, etc... David [1] http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4685.txt On 10/11/06, Ashley Kyd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear The List, I'm

Re: [uf-discuss] Threaded Comments

2006-10-11 Thread Stephen Paul Weber
You might consider just looking at XOXO pure as a route too, and extracting the comment portion of the XOXO Blog Format http://blogxoxo.blogspot.com/2006/01/xoxo-blog-format.html (as is often done and is shown on http://microformats.org/wiki/comments-formats) and nesting that way. Since XOXO

Re: [uf-discuss] First version of Currency proposal

2006-10-11 Thread Lachlan Hunt
Scott Reynen wrote: On Oct 11, 2006, at 2:43 PM, Guillaume Lebleu wrote: Can we just treat everything as the default unit Not sure what you mean in the context of the 99c example. The default unit for the US currency is the Dollar, not the Cent, but in the context of the 99c context, we

Re: [uf-discuss] First version of Currency proposal

2006-10-11 Thread Emiliano Martinez Luque
Hi, I have just finnished reading both proposals, and here are some of my thoughts. Regarding the Straw man proposal, the symbol class seems to be unnecesary since the symbol in most price representations is just a convention to define which currency we are speaking of. So there is no actual

Re: [uf-discuss] First version of Currency proposal

2006-10-11 Thread Lachlan Hunt
Guillaume Lebleu wrote: Please find it at: http://microformats.org/wiki/currency-proposal For tables of currency, I don't like the global definition method suggested. Tables cells have the scope and headers attributes available, so we should use them where possible. See, for example, this

Re: [uf-discuss] First version of Currency proposal

2006-10-11 Thread Emiliano Martinez Luque
I've just realized that the markup in my examples is wrong.. since I'm using title to define a value on the span element where I should be using the abbr element. I'm sorry about that, I was thinking more along the lines on how to parse the format than the actual mark up. Emiliano Martínez Luque

Re: [uf-discuss] First version of Currency proposal

2006-10-11 Thread Emiliano Martinez Luque
My message with corrected markup. Please disregard the other one. Regarding the Straw man proposal, the symbol class seems to be unnecesary since the symbol in most price representations is just a convention to define which currency we are speaking of. So there is no actual need to explicitly

Re: [uf-discuss] First version of Currency proposal

2006-10-11 Thread Scott Reynen
On Oct 11, 2006, at 6:33 PM, Guillaume Lebleu wrote: Scott Reynen wrote: So which of these tasks should we aim to make simple? I'd say the latter, because it's far more common (well over 80%, I think). I think we agree here. $99 is more common than 99c, so the former should be simpler to