Re: [uf-discuss] Getting started with microformats

2006-08-17 Thread Graham Higgins
Hi, Relatively new subscriber here. Sorry for the lag in this response. On 9 Aug 2006, at 18:41, Chris Messina wrote: We could offer either a case study (XCorp started by locating all references to people and locations on their website. They then marked up their pages using hcard.

Re: [uf-discuss] Getting started with microformats

2006-08-17 Thread Ciaran McNulty
I did think about using the agent field --- unfortunately, in this instance John Smith is (in real life) an agent and John Doe is the agent's assistant. I have a feeling that using the agent's agent field for the agent's assistant's hcard or the associate agent's hcard is just going to cause

Re: [uf-discuss] Getting started with microformats

2006-08-17 Thread David Osolkowski
On 8/17/06, Ciaran McNulty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I believe the markup looks something like: div class=vcard span class=fnJohn Smith/span can be reached via his secretary span class=agent vcard span class=fnJohn Doe/span on span class=tel020 /span /span /div See

Re: [uf-discuss] Getting started with microformats

2006-08-17 Thread Graham Higgins
On 17 Aug 2006, at 14:03, Ciaran McNulty wrote: I did think about using the agent field --- unfortunately, in this instance John Smith is (in real life) an agent ... The vCard 'agent' field strongly means that the enclosed vCard is an assistant or proxy of the main vCard, it doesn't mean

[uf-discuss] Getting started with microformats

2006-08-09 Thread Chris Messina
So I had the question posed to me yet again: Ok, we know we should do microformats... but we're not sure where to start. Can you help us out? Seeing as how I'm probably not alone here, I was going to create a Getting started with microformats page when I discovered a bunch of confused pages

Re: [uf-discuss] Getting started with microformats

2006-08-09 Thread Frances Berriman
Chris Messina wrote: So I had the question posed to me yet again: Ok, we know we should do microformats... but we're not sure where to start. Can you help us out? Seeing as how I'm probably not alone here, I was going to create a Getting started with microformats page when I discovered a bunch

Re: [uf-discuss] Getting started with microformats

2006-08-09 Thread Erica Douglass
Hi Chris, I totally agree. Tantek and I were talking about this at Wordcamp -- how people don't really get microformats until they see them in action. I marked up a sidebar calendar on my blog with the event microformats and want to use that as one case study. I am sure there are many others.

Re: [uf-discuss] Getting started with microformats

2006-08-09 Thread Tantek Çelik
On 8/9/06 10:41 AM, Chris Messina [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So I had the question posed to me yet again: Ok, we know we should do microformats... but we're not sure where to start. Can you help us out? Seeing as how I'm probably not alone here, I was going to create a Getting started with

Re: [uf-discuss] Getting started with microformats

2006-08-09 Thread Ryan King
On Aug 9, 2006, at 10:41 AM, Chris Messina wrote: I would like to propose (and yes, this means work at some point, but for now I'm raising the issue) that we create a well-written and straight forward page that does answer the question: I'm ready to get started, so where do I begin? I don't

Re: [uf-discuss] Getting started with microformats

2006-08-09 Thread Bob Jonkman
Chris Messina wrote: So I had the question posed to me yet again: Ok, we know we should do microformats... but we're not sure where to start. Can you help us out? [...] We could offer either a case study (XCorp started by locating all references to people and locations on their website. They