Re: [uf-discuss] Should microformat features (like rel-tag) have explicit scope?

2007-02-07 Thread Derrick Lyndon Pallas
Ryan King wrote: Actually I think it *is* quite reasonable to make parsers know about every microformat. This is not viable from a consumer perspective. New formats can immediately invalidate old parsers by changing the semantics the consumer expects without so much as an annotation in the defi

Re: [uf-discuss] hMood/hPresence?

2007-02-07 Thread Ben Buchanan
> Is there any plan/interest to work on a hMood or hPresence microformat > that could describe information related to the mood or the activity of > a person/group? Bloggers typically express their feelings over the > web, or what they have been doing during the day, so it would be > interesting to

Re: [uf-discuss] New new mailing list

2007-02-07 Thread Nick Drago
I agree; I think that we should use the -new list for research/ discussion of *new* ideas for microformats. It would be confusing to move something to another list that has always been discussed here. -- + Nick Drago + e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] + w: http://weekendcycling.com On 2/7/07, Benjamin West

Re: [uf-discuss] New new mailing list

2007-02-07 Thread Benjamin West
On 2/7/07, Michael McCracken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: So, is the microformats-new mailing list now the appropriate place for discussing hCite development? Thanks, -mike Good question. My personal opinion is that we should kind of grandfather older stuff, while encouraging newcomers with new

Re: [uf-discuss] New new mailing list

2007-02-07 Thread Michael McCracken
So, is the microformats-new mailing list now the appropriate place for discussing hCite development? Thanks, -mike On 2/7/07, Ryan King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Ok, after much feedback, deliberation and procrastination, we've started a new mailing list, microformats-new[1] for developing new

Re: Vote on this: rel="me self" to indicate an authoritative hCard {was: Re: [uf-discuss] Authoritative hCards [was RE: Canonical hCards (was: Search on CSS element)]}

2007-02-07 Thread David Janes
On 2/7/07, Ryan King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Feb 7, 2007, at 12:50 PM, David Janes wrote: > On 2/7/07, Ryan King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Yes there are several problems: >> >> 1. XFN applies to whole pages. This means that you can't reliably put >> different people's hCards on the sam

Re: [uf-discuss] Vote on this: rel="me self" to indicate an authoritative hCard

2007-02-07 Thread Ryan King
On Feb 7, 2007, at 1:44 PM, Ryan Cannon wrote: On Feb 7, 2007, Ryan King wrote: 2. We have prior art that is being ignored. Publishers are already using ... to do this. However, UID is not a field that takes a URL for its value, just a string, so therefore: http://ryancannon.com/";>Ryan S

Re: Vote on this: rel="me self" to indicate an authoritative hCard {was: Re: [uf-discuss] Authoritative hCards [was RE: Canonical hCards (was: Search on CSS element)]}

2007-02-07 Thread Ryan King
On Feb 7, 2007, at 12:50 PM, David Janes wrote: On 2/7/07, Ryan King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Yes there are several problems: 1. XFN applies to whole pages. This means that you can't reliably put different people's hCards on the same page and do this. 2. We have prior art that is being igno

Re: [uf-discuss] Re: Vote on this: rel="me self" to indicate an authoritative hCard

2007-02-07 Thread Ryan King
On Feb 7, 2007, at 1:59 PM, Edward O'Connor wrote: However, UID is not a field that takes a URL for its value, just a string, so therefore: Perhaps this is addressed in [1] or [2]? 1. http://microformats.org/wiki/uid-brainstorming 2. http://microformats.org/discuss/mail/microformats-discuss/

[uf-discuss] rel-tag title as tag value (Was: Should microformat features (like rel-tag) have explicit scope?)

2007-02-07 Thread James Craig
Edward O'Connor wrote: James Craig wrote: Requiring a restful URL for rel-tag (though the ideal solution) is expecting a lot more of a µf author than requiring authors to add a bit of markup. While properly implementing a tag space may be slightly more difficult[1] than other methods for so

[uf-discuss] New new mailing list

2007-02-07 Thread Ryan King
Ok, after much feedback, deliberation and procrastination, we've started a new mailing list, microformats-new[1] for developing new microformats. One of the goals is to keep this list (microformats-discuss) focused on practical matters for people working with microformats. Though who wish

[uf-discuss] Re: Authoritative hCards

2007-02-07 Thread Edward O'Connor
Ryan wrote: > uid goes on @class, not rel. Yes, thanks for the correction. Ted ___ microformats-discuss mailing list microformats-discuss@microformats.org http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss

[uf-discuss] Re: Should microformat features (like rel-tag) have explicit scope?

2007-02-07 Thread Edward O'Connor
James Craig wrote: > Requiring a restful URL for rel-tag (though the ideal solution) is > expecting a lot more of a µf author than requiring authors to add a > bit of markup. While properly implementing a tag space may be slightly more difficult[1] than other methods for some developers or organi

[uf-discuss] Re: Vote on this: rel="me self" to indicate an authoritative hCard

2007-02-07 Thread Edward O'Connor
> However, UID is not a field that takes a URL for its value, just a > string, so therefore: Perhaps this is addressed in [1] or [2]? 1. http://microformats.org/wiki/uid-brainstorming 2. http://microformats.org/discuss/mail/microformats-discuss/2006-April/003726.html (See also the rest of th

Re: [uf-discuss] Vote on this: rel="me self" to indicate an authoritative hCard

2007-02-07 Thread Ryan Cannon
On Feb 7, 2007, Ryan King wrote: 2. We have prior art that is being ignored. Publishers are already using ... to do this. However, UID is not a field that takes a URL for its value, just a string, so therefore: http://ryancannon.com/";>Ryan Should be parsed as URL: http;//ryancannon.com/

Re: [uf-discuss] Authenticity of Authoritative hCard (was: Re: Vote on this: rel="me self" to indicate an authoritative hCard)

2007-02-07 Thread Ryan Cannon
On Feb 7, 2007, at 3:09 PM, Ryan King wrote: Perhaps we need a "class="pgp-public-key" property for hCard? There's already a KEY field in vCard. From RFC2624: Type purpose: To specify a public key or authentication certificate associated with the object that the vCard represents. I'm su

Re: [uf-discuss] Re: Authoritative hCards

2007-02-07 Thread Ryan King
On Feb 7, 2007, at 12:00 PM, Edward O'Connor wrote: Ryan wrote: Right, but there's also a lot of use to reusing things from the present microformat (hCard). vCard has a property called UID, which is defined as: """ Type purpose: To specify a value that represents a globally unique identifier

Re: [uf-discuss] Vote on this: rel="me self" to indicate an authoritative hCard

2007-02-07 Thread Ryan King
On Feb 7, 2007, at 12:47 PM, David Janes wrote: On 2/7/07, Ara Pehlivanian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 2/7/07, David Janes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think you're missing a stage: > > - fragment hcard (anywhere on the net by anybody) > - points to home page, using class="url" > - home pag

Re: [uf-discuss] Vote on this: rel="me self" to indicate an authoritative hCard

2007-02-07 Thread Ara Pehlivanian
On 2/7/07, David Janes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 2/7/07, Ara Pehlivanian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2/7/07, David Janes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I think you're missing a stage: > > > > - fragment hcard (anywhere on the net by anybody) > > - points to home page, using class="url" >

Re: Vote on this: rel="me self" to indicate an authoritative hCard {was: Re: [uf-discuss] Authoritative hCards [was RE: Canonical hCards (was: Search on CSS element)]}

2007-02-07 Thread David Janes
On 2/7/07, Ryan King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Yes there are several problems: 1. XFN applies to whole pages. This means that you can't reliably put different people's hCards on the same page and do this. 2. We have prior art that is being ignored. Publishers are already using ... to do this.

Re: [uf-discuss] Vote on this: rel="me self" to indicate an authoritative hCard

2007-02-07 Thread David Janes
On 2/7/07, Ara Pehlivanian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 2/7/07, David Janes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think you're missing a stage: > > - fragment hcard (anywhere on the net by anybody) > - points to home page, using class="url" > - home page, using class="something" rel="something-else", p

Re: [uf-discuss] Vote on this: rel="me self" to indicate an authoritative hCard

2007-02-07 Thread Ara Pehlivanian
On 2/7/07, David Janes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I think you're missing a stage: - fragment hcard (anywhere on the net by anybody) - points to home page, using class="url" - home page, using class="something" rel="something-else", points to authoritative hcard e.g. Ryan King hCards in the wild

Re: [uf-discuss] Should microformat features (like rel-tag) have explicit scope?

2007-02-07 Thread James Craig
Ryan King wrote: Requiring authors to add markup in order to make rel-tag's scope explicit makes it hard to publish the data and doesn't solve any real problem. Hijacking a thread to mention another rel-tag oddity: Requiring a restful URL for rel-tag (though the ideal solution) is expect

Re: [uf-discuss] Vote on this: rel="me self" to indicate an authoritative hCard

2007-02-07 Thread David Janes
On 2/7/07, Ara Pehlivanian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 2/7/07, Ryan King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You're right, rel=me requires symmetry in order to be trusted at all. > For this reason, and others XFN is not the simplest way to do > Authoritative hCards. I guess the real question is, "who

Re: [uf-discuss] Vote on this: rel="me self" to indicate an authoritative hCard

2007-02-07 Thread Ara Pehlivanian
On 2/7/07, Ryan King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: You're right, rel=me requires symmetry in order to be trusted at all. For this reason, and others XFN is not the simplest way to do Authoritative hCards. I guess the real question is, "who will be creating the partial hCards that will be referring

Re: Vote on this: rel="me self" to indicate an authoritative hCard {was: Re: [uf-discuss] Authoritative hCards [was RE: Canonical hCards (was: Search on CSS element)]}

2007-02-07 Thread Ryan King
On Jan 30, 2007, at 4:06 PM, Ben Ward wrote: Chris Messina: http://factoryjoe.com/blog/hcard/#hcard"; class="fn url" rel="me self">Chris Messina Citizen Agency ... John Allsopp: The "definition" of the self attribute value in Atom is "self: the feed itself". The term "the" seems to

[uf-discuss] Re: Authoritative hCards

2007-02-07 Thread Edward O'Connor
Ryan wrote: > Right, but there's also a lot of use to reusing things from the > present microformat (hCard). > > > vCard has a property called UID, which is defined as: > > """ > Type purpose: To specify a value that represents a globally unique > identifier corresponding to the individual or reso

Re: [uf-discuss] Vote on this: rel="me self" to indicate an authoritative hCard

2007-02-07 Thread Ryan King
On Feb 2, 2007, at 2:57 PM, Ara Pehlivanian wrote: On 2/1/07, John Allsopp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: use case - sure - for example, at our conference sites, we markup speakers with hCard, and this often includes a link to their blog etc. In this case, a link to an authoritative (or perhaps, to

Re: [uf-discuss] Authoritative hCards [was RE: Canonical hCards (was: Search on CSS element)]

2007-02-07 Thread Ryan King
On Jan 30, 2007, at 2:28 PM, John Allsopp wrote: Chris, (all the following simply thoughts in the spirit of brainstorming, rather than any particular argument in favour of my original suggestion) I pretty much came up with a very similar proposal for handling this issue, though from the

Re: [uf-discuss] Authoritative hCards [was RE: Canonical hCards (was: Search on CSS element)]

2007-02-07 Thread Ryan King
On Jan 30, 2007, at 11:50 AM, Chris Messina wrote: Well, I certainly am coming to the party late. I actually started a post on this topic over a week ago -- and absentmindedly hadn't checked on this list first before posting and therefore published without the benefit of this discussion (I can

Re: [uf-discuss] Authoritative hCards [was RE: Canonical hCards (was: Search on CSS element)]

2007-02-07 Thread Ryan King
Sorry, I'm way behind on this thread. I wish I weren't but there's nothing I can do about that now... On Jan 29, 2007, at 5:50 PM, John Allsopp wrote: Ben, For my money, John Allsopp's idea to reuse rel="bookmark self" [1] makes most sense. As well as being gorgeously consistent with oth

Re: [uf-discuss] Should microformat features (like rel-tag) have explicit scope?

2007-02-07 Thread Ryan King
On Jan 31, 2007, at 7:07 PM, Derrick Lyndon Pallas wrote: If I have a parser that only knows (and only cares about) the rel- tag format, it will be confused by people that use rel-tag for the category property in hCard. It seems unreasonable that every microformat should have to know about e

Re: [uf-discuss] Authenticity of Authoritative hCard (was: Re: Vote on this: rel="me self" to indicate an authoritative hCard)

2007-02-07 Thread Ryan King
On Jan 31, 2007, at 8:41 AM, Andy Mabbett wrote: In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Ara Pehlivanian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes what if someone registers ben-ward.net and puts up a fake card on that site. Perhaps we need a "class="pgp-public-key" property for hCard? There's already a KEY fiel

Re: [uf-discuss] Introduction, and announcing XFN and HCard import into Videntity.org

2007-02-07 Thread Dan Libby
On Tuesday 06 February 2007 19:50, Scott Reynen wrote: > On Feb 6, 2007, at 1:56 PM, Dan Libby wrote: > > This has likely already been discusssed, but > > I think that some standard parsing classes in various languages > > could help > > pave the way for other implementors. If such exists for PHP

Re: [uf-discuss] Introduction, and announcing XFN and HCard import into Videntity.org

2007-02-07 Thread Chris Messina
Hi Dan and welcome. I've been following Videntity for some time and appreciate your support of microformats -- and would appreciate it if you would document your thinking and experience with regards to XFN + hcard. I personally think that OpenID + XFN + hcard has enormous potential for opening de