[uf-discuss] XFN - Professionals network uF

2007-04-19 Thread Guy Fraser
Hi, (Apologies for cross posting, but wasn't sure which list this was being discussed on) I read on the microformats site that there are plans to develop XFN - that's something I'd be extremely interested in as our company has numerous clients who would benefit greatly from that. Please let

[uf-discuss] URLs in hrefs

2007-04-19 Thread Michael Smethurst
Afternoon all Standard practice at the beeb has always been to use link urls relative to the root: href=/radio4/today Clearly these are of little use in a microformat (or any attempt to use html as an api) So my question is - are there any problems we should be aware of in switching to full

Re: [uf-discuss] URLs in hrefs

2007-04-19 Thread Charles Iliya Krempeaux
Hello Michael, What's the problem with using relative URLs (in Microformats)? Any software that looks for Microformats can figure out the absolute URL itself (from the relative URL). There shouldn't be any problem. And thus... there is no need for you to switch from relative URLs to absolute

Re: [uf-discuss] URLs in hrefs

2007-04-19 Thread Ryan King
On Apr 19, 2007, at 9:45 AM, Michael Smethurst wrote: Afternoon all Standard practice at the beeb has always been to use link urls relative to the root: href=/radio4/today Clearly these are of little use in a microformat (or any attempt to use html as an api) It's not clear that

Re: [uf-discuss] XFN - Professionals network uF

2007-04-19 Thread Guy Fraser
You might be a bit confused. XFN already exists (and has since 2004): http://gmpg.org/xfn/ . There has, however, also been discussion about describing more professional relationships, that XFN doesn't cover*. Sorry, it was a typo on my part - yes, I was referring to XPN, not XFN. I've

[uf-discuss] Ponderings on XFN/XBN/XPN

2007-04-19 Thread Guy Fraser
Hi List, I just threw a blog page together in my wiki pondering about additional groupings and relationships that could be added to XFN and also some ideas for having a way to define different types of networks (a bit like groupings but possibly more formal?) and also adding macroscopic time