Re: [uf-discuss] "authoritative hCards", a simpler proposl

2007-02-08 Thread David Janes
On 2/8/07, Ryan King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I propose that this is a simpler solution which will work better. Also, the algorithm for finding the most authoritative hCard: 1. if no uid or uid == the uid from the previous iteration/recursion => you're done 2. if url == uid and there's an hCa

Re: [uf-discuss] "authoritative hCards", a simpler proposl

2007-02-08 Thread Lachlan Hardy
Hi, Ryan Thanks for summarising. It was getting confusing skipping around all those threads I want to address your points out of order, if I may. Firstly, just to check that I have understood your proposal correctly Also, the algorithm for finding the most authoritative hCard: 1. if no uid or

RE: [uf-discuss] VIA or VIA SELF to indicate authoritative hCard[was: UID URL to indicate (relatively) more authoritativehCard(Was: Vote on this: rel="me self" to indicate anauthoritative hCard)]

2007-02-08 Thread Joe Andrieu
Ryan King wrote: > On Feb 8, 2007, at 4:49 PM, Joe Andrieu wrote: > > I'd like to reintroduce @rel="via" to the conversation[1]: > >5. The value "via" signifies that the IRI in the value > of the href > >attribute identifies a resource that is the source of the > >information

Re: [uf-discuss] COinS information?

2007-02-08 Thread Ross Singer
Ok, I'll try this again... __ Adrienne, As someone that was actively involved in creating COinS, it's not a microformat. Most of the reasons are semantic, some are pedantic, but it boils down to: 1. Microformats have a process and COinS was developed outside that pr

[uf-discuss] addresses for rural delivery

2007-02-08 Thread pmw57
I've been marking up some content with the hCard format but came across a puzzling dilemma. In New Zealand, rural delivery addresses are commonly presented as Beverleigh and Grant Muir RD1 Hari Hari 7953 South Westland New Zealand Our postal system has another example of how they should be pre

[uf-discuss] VIA or VIA SELF to indicate authoritative hCard [was: UID URL to indicate (relatively) more authoritativehCard (Was: Vote on this: rel="me self" to indicate anauthoritative hCard)]

2007-02-08 Thread Ryan Cannon
On Feb 8, 2007, at 8:03 PM, Joe Andrieu wrote: Why not just have a "via" point to "source" hCards and any hCard that is self-referential is "authoritative"? That seems both easy for publishers and relatively straightforward for parsers. Keep dereferencing @rel="via" attributes until you find

[uf-discuss] "authoritative hCards", a simpler proposl

2007-02-08 Thread Ryan King
I apologize for being semi-away for awhile. Catching up in the last few days, I find that there are some probelems with the "authoritative hcards" proposals. I've already spoken up a bit, but I want to delineate my perspective and outline in full my counter-proposal. First, the problems:

Re: [uf-discuss] VIA or VIA SELF to indicate authoritative hCard [was: UID URL to indicate (relatively) more authoritativehCard (Was: Vote on this: rel="me self" to indicate anauthoritative hCard)]

2007-02-08 Thread Ryan King
On Feb 8, 2007, at 4:49 PM, Joe Andrieu wrote: Scott Reynen wrote: On Feb 8, 2007, at 4:29 PM, David Janes wrote: That the authoritative hCard is the one that _doesn't_ have a UID, i.e. potentially has less information than a fragment hCard?! I think this is how authority generally works i

Re: [uf-discuss] UID URL to indicate (relatively) more authoritative hCard (Was: Vote on this: rel="me self" to indicate an authoritative hCard)

2007-02-08 Thread Ryan King
On Feb 8, 2007, at 2:23 PM, David Janes wrote: On 2/8/07, Scott Reynen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: So as I understand that, the rules for getting the most authoritative hCard for a given URL are: 1) parse hCard at current URL 2) If the hCard includes , load the URL in the href, and return to st

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)]}

2007-02-08 Thread Ryan King
On Feb 8, 2007, at 12:00 PM, David Janes wrote: On 2/8/07, Ben Ward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 8 Feb 2007, at 19:02, David Janes wrote: > On 2/8/07, Ryan King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Nothing special is needed at /blog/contact/. >> >> -ryan > > But that's the authoritative hCard. […] >

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)]}

2007-02-08 Thread Ryan King
On Feb 8, 2007, at 11:02 AM, David Janes wrote: On 2/8/07, Ryan King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Nothing special is needed at /blog/contact/. But that's the authoritative hCard. What's the algorithm (or heuristic) that I follow if I'm a parser looking at the blog at microformats.org, see your

[uf-discuss] VIA or VIA SELF to indicate authoritative hCard [was: UID URL to indicate (relatively) more authoritativehCard (Was: Vote on this: rel="me self" to indicate anauthoritative hCard)]

2007-02-08 Thread Joe Andrieu
Scott Reynen wrote: > On Feb 8, 2007, at 4:29 PM, David Janes wrote: > > >> That the authoritative hCard is the > >> one that _doesn't_ have a UID, i.e. potentially has less > information > >> than a fragment hCard?! > > I think this is how authority generally works in practice, from > extern

Re: [uf-discuss] Rel-tag issues, i can't create my own tagspace!

2007-02-08 Thread Andy Mabbett
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Brian Suda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes >--- i agree with all of this, and that is why microformats do not >force you to use your own tagspace. There are plenty of sites that can >easily be used as tagspaces[1] There's also an implicit assumption that publishers (who

[uf-discuss] COinS information?

2007-02-08 Thread Adrienne Travis
I hope that this isn't something that's already been referred to ad nauseam; i'm a newbie on the list. I just found out about this, and it SEEMS like a microformat, and worth including on the wiki: http://ocoins.info/ It's a way of including structured bibliographic data for a page in a very com

Re: [uf-discuss] UID URL to indicate (relatively) more authoritative hCard (Was: Vote on this: rel="me self" to indicate an authoritative hCard)

2007-02-08 Thread Scott Reynen
On Feb 8, 2007, at 4:29 PM, David Janes wrote: That the authoritative hCard is the one that _doesn't_ have a UID, i.e. potentially has less information than a fragment hCard?! I think this is how authority generally works in practice, from external references. Here's one potential usage s

Re: [uf-discuss] UID URL to indicate (relatively) more authoritative hCard (Was: Vote on this: rel="me self" to indicate an authoritative hCard)

2007-02-08 Thread David Janes
On 2/8/07, David Janes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 2/8/07, Scott Reynen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So as I understand that, the rules for getting the most authoritative > hCard for a given URL are: > > 1) parse hCard at current URL > 2) If the hCard includes , load the URL in the > href, and

Re: [uf-discuss] UID URL to indicate (relatively) more authoritative hCard (Was: Vote on this: rel="me self" to indicate an authoritative hCard)

2007-02-08 Thread David Janes
On 2/8/07, Scott Reynen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: So as I understand that, the rules for getting the most authoritative hCard for a given URL are: 1) parse hCard at current URL 2) If the hCard includes , load the URL in the href, and return to step 1. When the consumer gets to http://theryank

[uf-discuss] UID URL to indicate (relatively) more authoritative hCard (Was: Vote on this: rel="me self" to indicate an authoritative hCard)

2007-02-08 Thread Scott Reynen
On Feb 8, 2007, at 2:00 PM, David Janes wrote: No no no. I'm looking for the set of rules a consumer has to follow to get from Ryan's hCard on microformats.org to his authoritative hCard at *the*ryanking/contact. I thought Ryan already answer that: On Feb 7, 2007, at 4:34 PM, Ryan King wrote:

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)]}

2007-02-08 Thread David Janes
On 2/8/07, Ben Ward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 8 Feb 2007, at 19:02, David Janes wrote: > On 2/8/07, Ryan King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Nothing special is needed at /blog/contact/. >> >> -ryan > > But that's the authoritative hCard. […] > > Sorry if this sounds pedantic, I'm not trying

Re: [uf-discuss] Puzzled about the value of XOXO

2007-02-08 Thread Dr. Ernie Prabhakar
Hi Roger, The point of XOXO is that you can trivially encode arrays and dictionaries in straight HTML. In particular, you can use it as an alternative to, e.g., JSON, for generic data structures: http://microformats.org/wiki/rest/datatypes Somebody's even written a whole blog about such u

[uf-discuss] Puzzled about the value of XOXO

2007-02-08 Thread Costello, Roger L.
Hi Folks, I have read the Wiki on XOXO and as I understand it, the XOXO microformat has no properties, it is simply a classname to be used at the top of a list, e.g., ... ... ... Question #1 Is that all there is to the XOXO microformat? I am puzzled how the XOXO microformat helps

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)]}

2007-02-08 Thread Ben Ward
On 8 Feb 2007, at 19:02, David Janes wrote: On 2/8/07, Ryan King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Nothing special is needed at /blog/contact/. -ryan But that's the authoritative hCard. […] Sorry if this sounds pedantic, I'm not trying to be. There's some assumption in what you're saying that

Re: [uf-discuss] New new mailing list

2007-02-08 Thread Ryan King
On Feb 7, 2007, at 3:16 PM, Benjamin West wrote: On 2/7/07, Michael McCracken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: So, is the microformats-new mailing list now the appropriate place for discussing hCite development? Good question. My personal opinion is that we should kind of grandfather older stuff

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)]}

2007-02-08 Thread David Janes
On 2/8/07, Ryan King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Nothing special is needed at /blog/contact/. -ryan But that's the authoritative hCard. What's the algorithm (or heuristic) that I follow if I'm a parser looking at the blog at microformats.org, see your partial hCard and try to find your authorit

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)]}

2007-02-08 Thread Ryan King
On Feb 7, 2007, at 2:56 PM, David Janes wrote: 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 re

Re: [uf-discuss] New new mailing list

2007-02-08 Thread Benjamin West
Would it be worthwhile to draw attention to this list on the blog for those that only follow that, or get just the digests? F -- Frances Berriman http://fberriman.com Frances, Good idea. MF blog: http://microformats.org/blog/2007/02/08/new-mailing-list/ my blog: http://bewest.wordpress.com/200

Re: [uf-discuss] hMedia microformat proposal

2007-02-08 Thread Brian Suda
On 2/8/07, Chris Newell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Firstly, we have a new mailing list for new formats: >http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-new/ Apologies. I've also found there is a "Media Info" microformat proposal that encompasses this requirement but has greater overall

Re: [uf-discuss] hMedia microformat proposal

2007-02-08 Thread Derrick Lyndon Pallas
Chris Newell wrote: Thanks - this is all useful. However TYPE can't convey all the information needed such as bit-rate. Chris HTTP Content-Type does this by putting the MIME type first, followed by a semi-colon, followed by key value pairs. Usually, I only see "text/html;charset=utf-8". Ac

Re: [uf-discuss] Authenticity of Authoritative hCard

2007-02-08 Thread NewsAgent 2000grad
Ryan Cannon said on Date: 02/07/2007 10:39:08 PM +0100 > 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 certifica

Re: [uf-discuss] hMedia microformat proposal

2007-02-08 Thread Chris Newell
At 16:05 08/02/2007, Brian Suda wrote: >On 2/8/07, Chris Newell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>Colleagues, >> >>I would like to propose a microformat to describe media files and media >>streams. In particular, groups of files or streams which represent the same >>content but with different encoding

Re: [uf-discuss] hMedia microformat proposal

2007-02-08 Thread Brian Suda
On 2/8/07, Chris Newell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Colleagues, I would like to propose a microformat to describe media files and media streams. In particular, groups of files or streams which represent the same content but with different encoding formats. A suitable starting point for this co

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

2007-02-08 Thread NewsAgent 2000grad
Hello, my name is Henrich C. Poehls, I have been reading the list for quite some while now, without writing. It has been very interesting to see that the topic of authoritative hcards led the discussion to the topic of trust and Digital Signatures. >> Perhaps we need a "class="pgp-public-key" pr

[uf-discuss] hMedia microformat proposal

2007-02-08 Thread Chris Newell
Colleagues, I would like to propose a microformat to describe media files and media streams. In particular, groups of files or streams which represent the same content but with different encoding formats. A suitable starting point for this could be Media RSS (http://search.yahoo.com/mrss). I'

Re: [uf-discuss] Rel-tag issues, i can't create my own tagspace!

2007-02-08 Thread Brian Suda
On 2/8/07, James Craig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Quoting from About Microformats: "Designed for humans first and machines second, microformats are a set of simple, open data formats built upon existing and widely adopted standards." This also implies they should be easy to implement. Co-locating

Re: [uf-discuss] Rel-tag issues, i can't create my own tagspace!

2007-02-08 Thread James Craig
Brian Suda wrote: I would love to have my host have the latest, greatest version of PHP technology. If they don't i don't go complain to PHP and ask them to back-port functionality to an earlier version. I buck it up and either move hosts, pay for the better service or co-locate my own box. It i

Re: [uf-discuss] New new mailing list

2007-02-08 Thread Frances Berriman
On 07/02/07, 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 microformats. One of the goals is to keep this list (microformats-discuss) focused on practical matters for people

[uf-discuss] Rel-tag issues, i can't create my own tagspace!

2007-02-08 Thread Brian Suda
There has been several emails here and there about the difficulties of creating tag spaces and that we should change the rel-tag spec. I completely disagree. Most of the issues stem from issues in blogging software, server software or hosting restrictions. All of these issues are out of the scop

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

2007-02-08 Thread Benjamin West
On 2/7/07, Ryan King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 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

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

2007-02-08 Thread Scott Reynen
On Feb 7, 2007, at 10:30 PM, Derrick Lyndon Pallas wrote: Yes, there are other ways to solve the problem; in fact, I do solve the problem in an unelegant way. My real issue now is (as laid out above) the resistance to real discussion of the problem. I think what you're seeing is that microf