Re: [uf-discuss] Citation and alternates-brainstorming

2007-12-13 Thread Jeff McNeill
Aloha Andy, et al, Use cases for alternates could be as follows: 1. Amazon.com page on a book with alternate versions, e.g., http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0789723107/ref=cm_cr_pr_orig_subj 2. TED.com talks, which include links to mp4, zipped mp4 and itunes, e.g.,

Re: [uf-discuss] Hcalendar in bbc.co.uk/programmes

2007-12-13 Thread Michael Smethurst
Cc-ing (hopefully) interested bbc parties Hello Andy Long time no hear On 12/12/07 19:02, Andy Mabbett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Michael Smethurst [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Just to say that hCalendar is used fairly extensively to describe broadcasts on

Re: [uf-discuss] Hcalendar in bbc.co.uk/programmes

2007-12-13 Thread Robert O'Rourke
Andy Mabbett wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Michael Smethurst [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Just to say that hCalendar is used fairly extensively to describe broadcasts on bbc.co.uk/programmes here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/genres/music

Re: [uf-discuss] Hcalendar in bbc.co.uk/programmes

2007-12-13 Thread Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
Robert O'Rourke wrote: I know it defeats the object semantically speaking but what are the other arguments against putting the machine-readable date/time in the class attribute and do they outweigh the gain in accessibility? For example, what's wrong with this: abbr

Re: [uf-discuss] Citation and alternates-brainstorming

2007-12-13 Thread Jeff McNeill
Hello Microformaters, * A user-agent could at the least identify one or more alternate formats for the current item or a linked item. * It could also identify the order of preference of alternates. * This could be used by microformat-aware search to provide search result links to alternates. *

Re: [uf-discuss] Citation and alternates-brainstorming

2007-12-13 Thread Andy Mabbett
On Thu, December 13, 2007 09:27, Jeff McNeill wrote: Use cases for alternates could be as follows: [...] Thank you. That explains what alternates are; but not how the proposed microformat would be /used/. In other words, what would a user agent *do* with them? -- Andy Mabbett ** via webmail

Re: [uf-discuss] Citation and alternates-brainstorming

2007-12-13 Thread Robert O'Rourke
Andy Mabbett wrote: On Thu, December 13, 2007 09:27, Jeff McNeill wrote: Use cases for alternates could be as follows: [...] Thank you. That explains what alternates are; but not how the proposed microformat would be /used/. In other words, what would a user agent *do* with them?

Re: [uf-discuss] Hcalendar in bbc.co.uk/programmes

2007-12-13 Thread Robert O'Rourke
Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis wrote: Robert O'Rourke wrote: I know it defeats the object semantically speaking but what are the other arguments against putting the machine-readable date/time in the class attribute and do they outweigh the gain in accessibility? For example, what's wrong with this:

Re: [uf-discuss] Citation and alternates-brainstorming

2007-12-13 Thread David Janes
On Dec 13, 2007 12:44 PM, Robert O'Rourke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Perhaps in the case of a podcast or video blog you could tell your feed-reader what format you prefer and it would grab the right file. That's one possibility but I don't know of anyone who does podcasts/video blogs in

Re: [uf-discuss] Citation and alternates-brainstorming

2007-12-13 Thread Angus McIntyre
On Thu, December 13, 2007 12:44 pm, Robert O'Rourke wrote: Perhaps in the case of a podcast or video blog you could tell your feed-reader what format you prefer and it would grab the right file. That's one possibility but I don't know of anyone who does podcasts/video blogs in multiple

Re: [uf-discuss] Citation and alternates-brainstorming

2007-12-13 Thread Jeff McNeill
Aloha, Interesting that alternates was brainstormed in terms of hItem as mentioned previously in the thread, but also could and perhaps should initially apply to citation. If I understand the citation discussion at http://microformats.org/wiki/citation-irc-notes-2006-04-09#Summary an alternate