[uf-discuss] Persons, Groups, Resources

2006-10-25 Thread Lorenzo De Tomasi
Some thoughts... Why not to split hcard in two formats: person and group? Person describes a physical person, like me, you or Dante Alighieri. Group describes a group of persons, organized in companies, associations, teams etc. and its a container of persons. div class=group h1

Re: [uf-discuss] Visible Data...a Microformat requirement?

2006-10-25 Thread Charles Iliya Krempeaux
Hello Mike, XML, Semantic HTML, and RDF are closely related to what is being done here. But there's alot of other technologies for specific areas. Like with multimedia type thigns we have SMIL, XSPF, etc etc. For databases like things we have CSV, TSV, HTML tables, etc etc. (Obviously I'm

RE: [uf-discuss] Mailing list debate moved new proposal

2006-10-25 Thread Mike Schinkel
Andy Mabbett Why not create a new mailing list for each proposal, once it's reached a certain stage? I tend to really like this proposal. I've been thinking about if and how Microformats can evolve and grow. I can see Microformats being potentially much larger helping to create tags in many

RE: [uf-discuss] Visible Data...a Microformat requirement?

2006-10-25 Thread Mike Schinkel
Thanks Charles. However I still have no idea why these things apply to specifying which page among of group of equivalent pages is authoritative and why Microformats do not. The latter seem a perfect fit to me, and what you listed either don't apply to general web pages, are years off and can't

Re: [uf-discuss] Visible Data...a Microformat requirement?

2006-10-25 Thread Dr. Ernie Prabhakar
Hi Mike, Your always welcome to use HTML class name semantics or other microformat-inspired technologies in your private applications. However, that is a different thing that calling it a microformat and engaging this whole group in vetting and supporting it. If you think this could be

Re: [uf-discuss] Visible Data...a Microformat requirement?

2006-10-25 Thread Scott Reynen
On Oct 25, 2006, at 5:15 PM, Mike Schinkel wrote: Thanks Charles. However I still have no idea why these things apply to specifying which page among of group of equivalent pages is authoritative and why Microformats do not. The latter seem a perfect fit to me, and what you listed either