Re: [uf-discuss] a very early draft proposal hTagcloud

2006-09-20 Thread Ben Ward
On 20 Sep 2006, at 02:23, Chris Messina wrote: I think what you need to define are ways to express relativety -- and that strong, em, big and small can help in indicating those relationships with styles turned off. So for example, the very smallest size might always have em surrounding the small

Re: [uf-discuss] a very early draft proposal hTagcloud

2006-09-20 Thread Matthew Levine
On Sep 20, 2006, at 1:39 AM, Ben Ward wrote: Personally I quite like the nested behaviour. I accept that is also unspecified implied semantics, but it doesn't seem unreasonable… that said, you can get four levels of tag cloud without nesting of the same element (by using STRONG as

Re: [uf-discuss] a very early draft proposal hTagcloud

2006-09-20 Thread David Janes
If IE6 compatibility is the issue, why not do the rating+rel-tag+css selectors, plus a hack for backwards browsers? abbr class=value title=4 a rel=tag href=/tags/Web+Standards+Group class=tsize4 Web Standards Group /a Where e.g. tsize4 is not part of the semantics but rather a purely

Re: [uf-discuss] a very early draft proposal hTagcloud

2006-09-20 Thread Ben Ward
On 20 Sep 2006, at 10:45, Matthew Levine wrote: However, I'm not whether I like exploiting nesting order. It feels a bit hackish, and isn't as semantically unambiguous as Ben's initial example. Yeah, I considered EM STRONG and STRONG EM as well but as you say, it's very hackish and in

Re: [uf-discuss] a very early draft proposal hTagcloud

2006-09-20 Thread Stephen Paul Weber
Considering the fact that many tagclouds are based on actual numerics (ie, 50 bookmarks on this tag), it might be nice to have access to that information further than just a rating. imho, styling is not the microformat's job, the implementor can add extra classes or whatever to make that work if

[uf-discuss] Financial data, statements etc - any previous discussion?

2006-09-20 Thread Ian Lloyd
In the process of defining a prototytping and development framework that will allow the department I work in to control UI aspects while letting the technical team concentrate on the backend stuff. Part of this project involves me creating initial HTML prototypes that are 'wireframe' in appearance

Re: [uf-discuss] Financial data, statements etc - any previous discussion?

2006-09-20 Thread Stephen Paul Weber
Well, the biggest suggestion is, of course, follow the process. Find out how this information is being presented online / on intranets (much of this kind of data is internal-only I would assume). Then, browse the existing microformats to see if anything remotely similar (ie, overlapping fields

Re: [uf-discuss] a very early draft proposal hTagcloud

2006-09-20 Thread Drew McLellan
On 20/9/2006, Stephen Paul Weber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Considering the fact that many tagclouds are based on actual numerics (ie, 50 bookmarks on this tag), it might be nice to have access to that information further than just a rating. imho, styling is not the microformat's job, the

Re: [uf-discuss] Financial data, statements etc - any previous discussion?

2006-09-20 Thread Chris Korhonen
- Has there been any discussion of this in the past? (I checked archives but couldn't find) - If not, is anyone aware of any existing 'standard' for naming/structuring financial data? - What would the community here recommend as my next steps to ensure that the work I'm doing internally can

Re: [uf-discuss] a very early draft proposal hTagcloud

2006-09-20 Thread John Allsopp
Stephen, Considering the fact that many tagclouds are based on actual numerics (ie, 50 bookmarks on this tag), it might be nice to have access to that information further than just a rating. imho, styling is not the microformat's job, the implementor can add extra classes or whatever to make

Re: [uf-discuss] a very early draft proposal hTagcloud

2006-09-20 Thread David Janes
Hi John, In my mind, the question is if there wasn't an IE issue, how would we do it? Given that observation, I then see these three points: - the IE issue will be marginal in 24 months (I hope) because of IE 7 - uFs are mostly about standardized _semantics_ rather than providing standardized

Re: [uf-discuss] a very early draft proposal hTagcloud

2006-09-20 Thread Drew McLellan
On 20/9/2006, David Janes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would suggest that hTagcloud say that: presentation is orthogonal to what we're trying to do -- provide semantic markup of tag clouds. Tag cloud implementers should come up with their own best way of handling the presentaion -- in fact, they

[uf-discuss] Avoiding duplicate data on one page; and same-page URL references.

2006-09-20 Thread Andy Mabbett
Consider the 9 December 2007 event on : http://www.westmidlandbirdclub.com/diary/2007/12.htm and the same event on: http://www.westmidlandbirdclub.com/birmingham/field2007.htm (that's the example furthest into the future, so last to expire, that I can offer. Apologies to

Re: [uf-discuss] Avoiding duplicate data on one page; and same-page URL references.

2006-09-20 Thread Brian Suda
On 9/20/06, Andy Mabbett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I feel that there should be some way to declare, at the start of the page, that all the events have the summary WMBC Birmingham Branch field trip and use the URL of that page - all data which is available to visitors to the latter page, albeit

Re: [uf-discuss] a very early draft proposal hTagcloud

2006-09-20 Thread Stephen Paul Weber
One small point to consider might be - how would the community at large benefit from this uF? What data could scripts/crawlers extract, what enhancements could, say, GM scripts add. If not enough is included to give a useful or meaningful answer to those questions, is it worth having a uF at

Re: [uf-discuss] 'currency' microformat straw-man proposal.

2006-09-20 Thread Scott Reynen
On Sep 20, 2006, at 11:25 AM, Andy Mabbett wrote: I have, therefore, put up a straw-man proposal, at: http://microformats.org/wiki/currency- brainstorming#Straw_man_proposal Please feel free to critique it, and, in particular, highlight any examples for which it does not cater. Nesting

Re: [uf-discuss] 'currency' microformat straw-man proposal.

2006-09-20 Thread Stephen Paul Weber
looks very good - nice and simple and functional :) On 9/20/06, Andy Mabbett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The proposal for a 'currency' microformat, for marking-up amounts of money, seems moribund. This is unfortunate, as a number of other formats (hListing, job, hReview, book, etc.), might make

Re: [uf-discuss] 'currency' microformat straw-man proposal.

2006-09-20 Thread Charles Iliya Krempeaux
Hello Andy, I didn't completely follow all of the last currency thread. (Got busy at work, and lost track of the thread.) But here's what we are doing... Something that renders as... $5.00 Would have the markup... abbr class=iso4217 #164; title=CAD$/abbr5.00 Also... I add the

[uf-discuss] firefox developer needed

2006-09-20 Thread Bruce D'Arcus
I'm sorry if this is a little off-topic and hope I'm not breaking any rule for posting this, but given that this project is in part a really cool implementation of microformats (well, will be once hCite is done!) ... http://zotero.org They're really looking for an experience Firefox developer

[uf-discuss] Re: a very early draft proposal hTagcloud

2006-09-20 Thread Chris Messina
...Which is why I proposed using big and small tags: they actually map to the function of a tagcloud: to visualize relationships between discreet data. There's a reason that we don't call them taglists but are instead clouds -- essentially a graph! Hell, you should be able to derive a pie chart

[uf-discuss] Re: a very early draft proposal hTagcloud

2006-09-20 Thread Chris Messina
For one thing, you could subscribe to the top 5 tags on delicious in a series of more than 5... You could also merge data from multiple sources on the client side to see what the hot tags *really* are across multiple contexts... And inasmuch as there plenty of tag clouds out there, devining a

Re: [uf-discuss] Re: a very early draft proposal hTagcloud

2006-09-20 Thread David Janes
In as point #2. Regards, etc... David On 9/20/06, Tantek Çelik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: David, Perhaps you could add it to the rel-tag-faq? http://microformats.org/wiki/rel-tag-faq Thanks, Tantek On 9/20/06 12:36 PM, David Janes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Somehow this has escaped me

Re: [uf-discuss] 'currency' microformat straw-man proposal.

2006-09-20 Thread Andy Mabbett
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Stephen Paul Weber [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes looks very good - nice and simple and functional :) Thank you. -- Andy Mabbett Say NO! to compulsory ID Cards: http://www.no2id.net/ Free Our Data: http://www.freeourdata.org.uk

Re: [uf-discuss] 'currency' microformat straw-man proposal.

2006-09-20 Thread Andy Mabbett
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Charles Iliya Krempeaux [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes I didn't completely follow all of the last currency thread. (Got busy at work, and lost track of the thread.) I think it meandered somewhat... But here's what we are doing... Something that renders as... $5.00

Re: [uf-discuss] 'currency' microformat straw-man proposal.

2006-09-20 Thread Charles Iliya Krempeaux
Hello Andy, On 9/20/06, Andy Mabbett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Charles Iliya Krempeaux [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes I didn't completely follow all of the last currency thread. (Got busy at work, and lost track of the thread.) I think it meandered somewhat... But

Re: [uf-discuss] 'currency' microformat straw-man proposal.

2006-09-20 Thread Tantek Çelik
Andy, I see that you documented some examples on the currency page on the wiki. Others have mentioned existing currency formats on this thread. Could you please create the following pages and fill them out? http://microformats.org/wiki/currency-examples

Re: [uf-discuss] 'currency' microformat straw-man proposal.

2006-09-20 Thread Scott Reynen
On Sep 20, 2006, at 4:18 PM, Andy Mabbett wrote: abbr class=currency title=USD span class=amount42.67/span /abbr Isn't this suggesting that 42.67 is an abbreviation for USD? I've commented before that microformats already misuse abbr in this way. Where is that? I don't remember

Re: [uf-discuss] 'currency' microformat straw-man proposal.

2006-09-20 Thread Gazza
Charles Iliya Krempeaux mumbled the following on 20/09/2006 22:38: abbr class=iso4217 #164; title=CAD$/abbr5.00 So a class name like currency-symbol or currency_symbol would be better. I've not been following this thread closely, so apologies if this has already been dismissed. Andy,

Re: [uf-discuss] 'currency' microformat straw-man proposal.

2006-09-20 Thread Andy Mabbett
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Tantek Çelik [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes I see that you documented some examples on the currency page on the wiki. Others have mentioned existing currency formats on this thread. Could you please create the following pages and fill them out?

Re: [uf-discuss] 'currency' microformat straw-man proposal.

2006-09-20 Thread Andy Mabbett
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Gazza [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes I've not been following this thread closely, so apologies if this has already been dismissed. Andy, or whoever, feel free to add any relevant parts to the brainstorming page. Noted, and thank you. Usually, when talking about currency,

Re: [uf-discuss] 'currency' microformat straw-man proposal.

2006-09-20 Thread Andy Mabbett
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Scott Reynen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes On Sep 20, 2006, at 4:18 PM, Andy Mabbett wrote: abbr class=currency title=USD span class=amount42.67/span /abbr Isn't this suggesting that 42.67 is an abbreviation for USD? I've commented before that microformats

Re: [uf-discuss] Parsing dates in preferred format

2006-09-20 Thread Andy Mabbett
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Scott Reynen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes I could possibly be convinced to write such a Greasemonkey script, but I currently suspect it would end up being more annoying than useful. For example, here's a clipping from the second (first English) live example in the

Re: [uf-discuss] 'currency' microformat straw-man proposal.

2006-09-20 Thread Tantek Çelik
On 9/20/06 3:51 PM, Andy Mabbett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I see that you documented some examples on the currency page on the wiki. Others have mentioned existing currency formats on this thread. Could you please create the following pages and fill them out?

[uf-discuss] hCard question

2006-09-20 Thread David Janes
I'm seeing this: div class=urlhttp://www.3color.org/~kwilson//div Likewise: span class=emailspan class=spamprevention usernamekwilson/span@span class=spamprevention domain3color.org/span/span in a vCard [1]. Good. No good? I'm guessing the latter. Regards, etc... David [1]

Re: [uf-discuss] 'currency' microformat straw-man proposal.

2006-09-20 Thread Andy Mabbett
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Gazza [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes span class=currency span class=type$/span span class=value5.00/span /span Dollars is a currency. Five Dollars is money. No, money is a currency, metal is another type of currency. Dollars is a /type/ of currency. Even if so,

Re: [uf-discuss] 'currency' microformat straw-man proposal.

2006-09-20 Thread Charles Iliya Krempeaux
Hello Andy, On 9/20/06, Andy Mabbett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Tantek Çelik [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes I see that you documented some examples on the currency page on the wiki. Others have mentioned existing currency formats on this thread. Could you please create

Re: [uf-discuss] 'currency' microformat straw-man proposal.

2006-09-20 Thread Charles Iliya Krempeaux
Hello, On 9/20/06, Andy Mabbett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Gazza [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes [...] I don't think any mention of ISO4217 is needed within the code though; it could be accepted as the default way of doing it, in the same way ISO8601 is used for dates,

Re: [uf-discuss] 'currency' microformat straw-man proposal.

2006-09-20 Thread Andy Mabbett
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Charles Iliya Krempeaux [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes I don't think any mention of ISO4217 is needed within the code though; it could be accepted as the default way of doing it, in the same way ISO8601 is used for dates, and whatever co-ordinate system is used in geo,

Re: [uf-discuss] 'currency' microformat straw-man proposal.

2006-09-20 Thread Charles Iliya Krempeaux
Hello Andy, On 9/20/06, Andy Mabbett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Charles Iliya Krempeaux [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes I don't think any mention of ISO4217 is needed within the code though; it could be accepted as the default way of doing it, in the same way ISO8601 is

Re: [uf-discuss] 'currency' microformat straw-man proposal.

2006-09-20 Thread Scott Reynen
On Sep 20, 2006, at 6:59 PM, Andy Mabbett wrote: No. You're not in a position to stipulate requirements (much less required prerequisites (sic)) of me, and your insinuations of bias are unfounded. We all have bias. I'm interested in a currency microformat because I work on several

Re: [uf-discuss] Parsing dates in preferred format

2006-09-20 Thread Scott Reynen
On Sep 20, 2006, at 6:33 PM, Andy Mabbett wrote: I prefer the original, and I suspect this is more the norm than the exception. [1] http://www.westmidlandbirdclub.com/diary/2006-09.htm Interesting - that's one of my pages. Can you suggest a better way to mark-up the event? No, I think